2015 Projections Day-by-Day [11th Edition of Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops]

EVENING SLIDESHOW PROJECTION SATURDAY 5 DEC 2015 - Curated by Françoise Callier All of our evening slideshow projections are powered by the Canon XEED WUX500, thanks to our partnership with iQlick Canon.

Alice SMEETS - THE GHETTO TAROT -

BELGIUM

www.alicesmeets.com

The Ghetto Tarot is a photographic interpretation of the traditional tarot deck in the ghetto. The scenes are inspired by the Rider Waite Tarot deck and were replicated together with a group of Haitian artists called Atis Rezistans in the Haitian slums using only material we were able to find or create locally.

Atis rezistans are claiming the word “Ghetto”, freeing themselves of its depreciating undertone and turning it into something beautiful. This project realises that we can choose if we look at destruction and see despair or if we choose to see the start of something new, we can change the meaning of every word, action and emotion.

Anne REARICK / AGENCE VU’ - IDAHO - TRUE WEST OF MEMORY AND MYTH -

USA www.annerearick.com

The Boise from Anne’s childhood has become a haven for Californians, high-tech industry employees and retirees, with its expanses covered suburban shopping centers and flashy houses. Nevertheless, the remains of a more authentic West still exist - small family farms, pow wow Indian of the Paiute-Shoshone tribe in the reserve Duck Valley, picnics after church in the city park, teenagers jumping from a rope in the Boise River, county fairs, life in small towns.

Although she no longer lives in Idaho for over 30 years now, it’s always a place that she claims her own. These images are a journey through memory and myth and together they are still part of the present.

Aun RAZA - NEW YEAR IN UZBEKISTAN -

PAKISTAN

aun.photoshelter.com

Uzbekistan is a two-sided postcard. On one side are the glorious remains of the Silk Road days, and on the other side is the heavily lingering Soviet shadow which keeps getting crossed over by the seemingly distant American popular culture.

Around New Year days, Uzbek Islamic-nationalism takes the back seat and Santa Clauses roam around doing everyday jobs while dreams of a different world float in the air.

This series is a glimpse of Aun’s new-year experiences in Uzbekistan.

Maira IRIGARAY, Rafael SALAZAR, Atossa SOLTANI - BELO MONTE DAM / AMAZON WATCH - BRAZIL amazonwatch.org The Brazilian government is building the world’s third largest hydroelectric dam on the Xingu River, a major Amazon tributary. Now over 50% complete, the Belo Monte Dam complex is designed to divert 80% of the Xingu River’s flow, which will devastate an area of over 1,500 square kilometres of Brazilian rainforest and cause the forced displacement of up to 40,000 people.

The Xingu River basin is a living symbol of Brazil’s cultural and biological diversity. Amazon Watch has led an international campaign to stop Belo Monte since 2010. Their efforts have been, and continue to be, instrumental in shining a spotlight on the inherent human rights and legal violations behind the dam and the environmental chaos it has left behind in its wake.

Agung PARAMESWARA - DEVOTION -

INDONESIA

www.agungparameswara.com

It is said there is never a day in Bali without a ceremony of some kind. Balinese spirituality and religion have their roots in Indian Hinduism, Buddhism, and ancient Animism. The theological basis of Hindu Bali comes from the Indian Philosophy, while the Animism underlies most of the rituals. An important belief from Balinese Hindu is that the occurrence of natural incidents that are affected by the spirits. Therefore the offerings, which are made from the harvests and crops, are offered to the spirits. During some ceremonies people are entering into trance. Trance is a culturally valuable trait in Bali. Trance behaviour has many manifestations and is an important shamanistic virtue.

David MAURICE SMITH

/ OCULI

- LIVING IN THE SHADOWS -

CANADA

www.davidmauricesmith.com

In 1835 the town of Wilcannia, Australia was “discovered” by explorer Major Thomas Mitchell. The Barkindji strive to rewrite a cultural story torn from them through historical wrongs. They face the challenge of adapting to external influences while living in deep shadows cast by institutionalized racism. Barkindji men have an average life expectancy of only 37 years, domestic violence rates are 13 times that of other Australian communities and infant mortality rates are 3 times higher than non-Aboriginal people. Dependency on government subsidies for survival, overcrowding, violence, alcohol and drug abuse keep the community in a cycle of survival mode. Although damaged, the spirit of the Barkindji carries on. There is rhythm and meaning despite the shadows cast on the Barlkindji. The fact that even shreds of their culture remain is a testament to their resilience.

Leon ROSE - LIVE, TRAIN, FIGHT LIKE THAI -

NEW ZEALAND

www.leonrose.co.nz

“Live, Train, Fight like Thai” is a photo essay that documents the sport of Muay Thai in New Zealand over the last 10 years. Leon has spent many hours at gyms and fight nights in that time, mostly at the invitation of City Lee Gar, which is the first Muay Thai gym to be established in NZ.

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Renaud PHILIPPE

/ HANS LUCAS

- NO WAY HOME -

CANADA

www.renaudphilippe.com

In the early 20th century, hundreds of families left Nepal to settle in Bhutan, on the invitation of a Bhutanese government eager to fill an acute labour shortage. Known as Lhotshampa (southerners), these migrants and their descendants lived in relative isolation for eight generations, retaining a highly distinct Nepali culture that set them apart from the Bhutanese majority.

In the1980s the Lhotshampa were declared illegal immigrants in their own country of birth and forced into exile. They returned to Nepal to find themselves refugees in their ancestral homeland: unable to work, dependent on NGOs, and deprived of any hope of living freely. Lhotshampa refugees were forced to settle in camps deep in the jungle of eastern Nepal to await an eventual return to Bhutan.

This return would never come.

Duy PHUONG - HOLDING WATER - VIETNAM

www.fuongle.com

The lake, with both its dreamlike characteristics and the physicality of its landscapes, merges with the people and their existence, all becoming an oneiric part of my work. Duy immersed himself in the waters, carried away by its currents, the way a stranger immerses himself in the life of the local people, carried away by the intimacy and confidence they shared with him. Water is the spirit that you can only understand by being immersed in its essence.

Luca CATALANO GONZAGA

/ WITNESS IMAGE

- THE HIDDEN FOCUS - ITALY

www.catalanogonzaga.com

Every day, an average of 1,000 new Somali refugees cross the border into Kenya and walk another 80km in order to queue in front of the UNHCR Registration site of Dadaab in Kenya. In the U.N. designated area, each and every single refugee is photographed and fingerprinted.

Here, registration seems to have miraculous benefits: it means access to tents, lavatories, drinking water, healthcare facilities and food passes. At the time, the three camps in Dadaab provided shelter for almost half a million refugees, and over 40 thousand more lived next to the outer fences of the camps, not benefiting from the U.N. jurisdiction.

Tadas ČERNIAUSKAS - COMFORT ZONE -

LITHUANIA

tadaocern.com

This project is about the seaside, sunbathing, and holiday somnolence that is free from the world surrounding you. These photos are not staged, and people did not suspect that I was photographing them.

John WENDLE - GLORY!: THE FIGHT FOR UKRAINE’S EAST -

USA

www.johnwendle.com

Bit by bit, Ukraine lost pieces of itself last year. First it lost its pro-Russian president, then it lost Crimea, then it lost its two eastern provinces. Some say its identity has been lost as well. By May 2014, people in the east were sharply divided between those who supported Ukraine and those who supported Russia. The only thing everyone agreed on was that the common person suffers during war at the hands of the rich and mighty, that everyone wanted the war to end soon and that the “other side” was to blame. This is a history of the suffering meted out by both sides and of the civilians caught in the middle.

Nick HANNES - MEDITERRANEAN. THE CONTINUITY OF MAN -

BELGIUM

www.continuityofman.com

The Mediterranean region has many faces. Over 200 million tourists flock to the Mediterranean beaches every year, putting great pressure on its natural scenery simultaneously thousands of desperate immigrants from Africa and Asia continuously attempt to cross the water in shabby boats. The images display a paradox, serious and moving at one moment, hilarious and ironic the next.

From 2010 to 2014 Nick Hannes has documented various contemporary issues such as tourism, urbanization and migration that hit the headlines.

Giacomo BRUNELLI - ETERNAL LONDON -

ITALY

www.giacomobrunelli.com

Eternal London was commissioned by The Photographers’Gallery and was shot over a period of two years. In this series, Giacomo Brunelli uses his distinct film-noir style to create a unique and evocative view of the capital and its famous landmarks.

The images are framed around the silhouettes of people and animals.

Brunelli takes his photographs during daily early morning walks, randomly choosing a person to follow before focusing his camera on them.

ZALMAI - THE CROSSING -

AFGHANISTAN-SWITZERLAND

www.zalmai.com

The crossing, Leaving everything behind, fleeing from Syria, Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, the violence, the destruction. On the road of hope they have to cross borders without knowing where those borders are ending, searching for a sense of security - they have to cross mountains, rivers, and the cold of winter. As soon as they arrive on European soil they have a sense of relief but that is where the humiliation and misunderstanding starts.

My work is about the journey of those people who challenge humanity, the humanity of others as their own humanity has vanished from their homeland through war.

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Mahesh SHANTARAM - MATRIMANIA -

INDIA

thecontrarian.in

Everything that’s great about India and everything that’s wrong with it can be summarised in a single wedding. The answers to just about any socio-economic question can be explained as a cause or effect of wedding culture. Weddings will always be the greatest enterprise of consumption in India, no holds barred.

Matrimania is Mahesh’s personal take on 21st century India seen through the prism of its wedding culture. Matrimania is not a documentary of ‘Indian weddings’ as much as it is a fictional narrative of one long night in India tearing at the seams. Matrimania is a dark narrative to the great Coming Together and what is left behind in its wake.

Eugeni GAY MARÍN - FROM QUANTUM ISLAND -

SPAIN

www.eugenigay.com

La Isla del Sol on Lake Titicaca located at 3800m altitude is an old sacred place. Today, three Aymara communities, who live in harmony with the earth, inhabit it.

The island keeps practicing ancestral rites, sacrifices of llamas or night ceremonies on the mountaintops.

It is a magical place, eagles predict the fate of people, and are able to predict death, flying women, light entering the lake, gold comes and goes, ghosts who attack by night.

Two and a half hours by boat from the nearest town, La Isla del Sol, has remained relatively isolated for a long time. It wasn’t many years ago that the first tourists and motorboats arrived.

Claudia GAUDELLI - WOMEN BOXERS -

ARGENTINA

www.claudiagaudelli.com

This photo essay was born from a desire to show women from an unusual perspective: fighting in the boxing ring. By highlighting a side of women that is commonly associated with masculinity—what many would even call a dark side—my hope is to broaden our perception of the limits of womanhood.

Each one of these female athletes has her own story but all of them shared something in common: humble origins and family environments in which the prevailing atmosphere was need and poverty.

They train every morning, sometimes evenings too, day after day. All of them are pouring their hearts out for the chance to fulfill a dream, a shot at the world championship. This dream is what keeps them standing on their feet.

Pelle CASS - SELECTED PEOPLE -

USA

pellecass.com

Pelle’s work reveals a surprising world that is visible only with a camera. These composite photographs examine a particular place over time. She selects which figures to retain in their original position and omits the rest, while looking for patterns, shapes, and coincidences.

She has two aims, one is to show the strangeness of time conveyed in this old saying: “the purpose of time is to keep everything from happening at once.” The other goal is to capture people in ordinary, non-dramatic moments because that’s most of what life is: a random mess of coincidences that go mostly unmarked and unnoticed, a series of tiny tragedies. She record’s these moments, re-sequence’s them, and make’s them, in some way, memorable.

Valeriy KLAMM - SIBERIANS -

RUSSIA

www.vklamm.ru

Valeriy tries to bring deeper understanding to one of the most un-captured lands. She asks, what does Siberia mean – beyond clichés like the Trans-Siberian train, Lake Baikal, oil, cold, or vodka? Who are the inhabitants of the vast Rural Russia and what is their daily reality?

What defines Russia on the level of simple daily things?

John VINK / MAGNUM PHOTOS - THE CYCLE OF RICE -

BELGIUM

www.johnvink.com

In collaboration with ‘The Cambodia Daily’ John Vink embarked in August 2015 on a one-year long story covering all possible aspects related to rice in Cambodia. The work will be divided into chapters and published in monthly installments in the weekend edition of The Cambodia Daily and cover various aspects like harvest, new breeds, rice related to religion, the use of rice with the Cham Muslim community, etc… This first chapter covers the transplantation of the rice seedlings, which is the most labour intensive part for the farmers.

Michel VANDEN EECKHOUDT

/ AGENCE VU’

- DOGS -

BELGIUM

Beauty contest, veterinary schools, trainings – for 10 years Michel Van den Eeckhoudt photographed dogs in all their ways. From Switzerland to Nepal, Scotland to Mauritius, his sensitive and hilarious photographs go along with interviews in which, in a direct style, a dog trainer, a veterinary surgeon, a blind person, a breeder and a circus artist talk about their deep relation with dogs.

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EVENING SLIDESHOW PROJECTION SUNDAY 6 DEC 2015

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Curated by Françoise Callier

All of our evening slideshow projections are powered by the Canon XEED WUX500, thanks to our partnership with iQlick Canon.

Magda RAKITA - GOD MADE WOMAN, THEN HE JERKED -

POLAND

www.magdarakita.com

“God made woman then he jerked”, reads a mural on the street of Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia, a country mostly remembered for its fourteen-year civil war in which an estimated 250,000 people lost their lives and more recently – the Ebola epidemic. This project explores the lived experience of a post-war generation of girls growing up among a war-scarred population.

It also incorporates many aspects that affect girls and young women in Liberia: limited access to education, exploitation and gender based violence. And this situation of women can very well represent the situation of society as a whole: with very few enjoying success and position of more or less undisputable power and vast majority struggling.

Amnon GUTMAN - THE LAND - ISRAEL

www.amnongutman.com

The village of Ar Ramadin in the southern region of Mt Hebron presents a unique example of the kind of effect that the West Bank barrier has had. The village has had to abandon lands, forced to purchase lands that have since been passed between Palestine and Israel over a number of years. The people of Ar Ramadin are often exposed to arrests, beatings, and confiscations of herds.

Houses and water wells have been demolished under the pretext of lack of licensing, and illegal building.

As the Arab world is historically changing by the day and the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are on hold once again. It is solely to the credit of these resilient people, the Ar Ramadinim and their heightened understanding of the ironies of history that they have not yet taken on the role that is being pushed onto them- that of a violent resistance.

UNEARTHING MYANMAR’S MINING PRACTICES Andre MALERBA - GOLD MINING, GUN DISEASE Matt GRACE - ARTISANAL OIL DRILLING Yu Yu Myint THAN - SOCIAL IMPACT OF SHWE GAS Lauren DECICCA - COPPER MINING IN MYANMAR’S SAGAING REGION Suthep KRITSANAVARIN - LIVING WITH THE COAL MINE MIN ZAYAR - JADE MINING IN KACHIN IN COOPERATION WITH NATURAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE MYANMAR

Myanmar is still in transition, and remains at an important juncture wherein continued pressure on certain issues can have positive long-term effects.

Andre Malerba (US), Eugenie Stone (MM), Lauren DeCicca (US), Minzayar Oo (MM), Matt Grace (UK) and Suthep Kritsanavarin (TH) have each focused on a particular aspect of the extraction industry including: jade, natural gas, oil, copper, rubies, and gold. By doing so, issues such as lost revenue, environmental damages, work related medical issues, activism, and land grabs are covered, among others. Collectively it forms a growing body of work that will serve as evidence in the fight for a fair and equal industry of extractive resources.

Eddie GERALD - A JEWISH STATE - ISRAEL

www.ge0-pix.com

This conceptual series offers an insight into the complex contradictions of Israeli society. By combining a variety of everyday scenes and transforming them into photographic impressions I use the images as a means to pursue the question of the country’s identity.

Rony ZAKARIA

[ WORKSHOP ALUMNI ]

- ENCOUNTERS -

INDONESIA

www.ronyzakaria.com

Through time one’s life changes, a city develops, a journey continues or ends. In the last six years Rony lived in and out of Jakarta, collecting snapshots as she became part of the big city, and also when she travelled, unattached from the system temporarily. It is a continuing voyage of witnessing dreams and hopes, which sometimes one step darker, and the other time, lighter. As like looking through a glass window, all seems absurd and yet real as reality. And we differently kept collecting questions that seeks for answers, the ones that is right for each of us, so we can keep on living through these encounters.

Corinna KERN - GEORGE’S WORLD -

GERMANY

www.foto-kern.com

This project gives a glimpse into the world of George Fowler, 72, who is affected by hoarding. George collects all sorts of items from pavements and dustbins hoping that they find a better purpose than perishing in landfills. After 33 years of living in the same place, the accumulation of clutter got to a state that his four-bedroom house is barely accessible.

This project explores the relation between George’s condition and inner world, his domestic environment and his life outside his dwellings, blurring the lines between neurotic compulsion, humanity and non-conformist lifestyle.

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Kaushal PARIKH - EMERGING FROM DARKNESS -

INDIA

www.kaushalp.com

Hazaribagh is plagued by an inefficient governance mechanism that encroaches on more land every year to feed the increasing need for coal. Displacement, land encroachment, loss of forests and a deteriorating environment thanks to coal mining are only some of the challenges faced by the people in the region. Most government services and the self-governance system are either defunct or dysfunctional. The deplorable situation and lack of livelihood opportunities have permitted exploitation of families including children.

Although there is a good network of social organisations at the district level that understand the immediacy of reacting to children’s issues, a lot more needs to be achieved to restore the rights of the marginalized and the childhoods of children in Hazirabagh.

Giulio PISCITELLI / CONTRASTO ITALY www.giuliopiscitelli.viewbook.com - FROM THERE TO HERE, IMMIGRATION IN THE TIME OF FORTRESS EUROPE Immigration to Europe by people from different corners of the world is a phenomenon that has been increasing over the last 30 years.

“From There to Here” is a visual archive that strives to tell the catastrophic consequences of the political and social upheavals that the world is experiencing. It presents a story through images that keeps the lights on how Europe has decided to manage and satisfy the requests to access to a better life. Those trying to get there consider Europe as a paradise, but the reality is different, because recently this “paradise” is increasingly becoming an impregnable fortress.

Martin ROEMERS

/ COSMOS

- METROPOLIS -

NETHERLANDS

www.martinroemers.com

According to calculations by the UNO, by 2050 around seventy percent of the global population will be living in cities. For his series Metropolis, Martin Roemers sets his sights on megacities worldwide with more than ten million inhabitants in which people often live under difficult circumstances in densely populated areas. Roemer lets us immerse ourselves in these urban lifeworlds: in his atmospheric photographs consisting of agglomerations and taken with long exposure times, traffic and people merge to become blurred, swirling currents. Motionless individuals or street merchants come across as unearthed islands around which surge colorful crowds.

Cyril COSTILHES - GRAND CIRCLE DIEGO -

FRANCE

www.sikost-photography.com

This project stems from the need to make sense of an impossible family situation. The wish to face up to a psychic abyss.

Urgent! Photographic exorcism.

Cyril’s father left to live in Diego Suarez, Madagascar in 2001. Two years later he was the victim of a serious motorbike accident.

Repatriated to France suffering from a major frontal dementia, he has remained interned, shut in and enclosed in his own dreams.

Cyril set out to follow his traces…. At Diego, he wandered.

Frédéric NOY / COSMOS FRANCE - RWANDA, BURUNDI, OUGANDA: ÊTRE GAY AU CŒUR DU CONTINENT AFRICAIN For over a year, Frédéric Noy documents the daily life of African homosexuals and transsexuals, in three countries in the heart of Africa: In Rwanda, homosexuality is not criminalized - In Burundi, the penalty is 5 years imprisonment and a fine - Uganda, life in prison. They are victims of all sorts of physical and psychological violence, primarily the denial of their right to exist as they are.

NEPAL PHOTO PROJECT - NEPAL AN OPEN CONTRIBUTION TO PHOTOGRAPHS DEPICTING THE NEPALESE EARTHQUAKE

Virginie NGUYEN HOANG / HANS LUCAS - GAZA, THE AFTERMATH - BELGIUM

virginie-nguyen.photoshelter.com

The last war in Gaza during the Israeli operation “Protective Edge” has resulted in more than 18,000 houses that have been destroyed.

According the UN, more than 108,000 are homeless on the Gaza Strip. Some of those who lost their homes are now living in UNRWA schools, tents, and very few in temporary housing.

The citizens of Gaza are still waiting for the reconstruction to begin as the international community has pledged $5.4billion to rebuild Gaza. However with access from Egypt being closed off no more goods or medicine can pass into the area. As a consequence, prices have risen and daily life has become more and more difficult.

This series attempts to portray the daily life of Gazans. Hanging between certain normality and the open scars of a conflict.

Ying ANG - FLESH, FLOWERS AND THE DAWN 2009 - 2010 - SINGAPORE

www.yingangphoto.com

Photographed from 2009 to 2010, Ying found herself in a time of transition. Between relationships, homes, careers, this undefined space is all she had to call her own. Within the gap of what she left behind and what she was still yet to find, grew these fragments of flesh, flowers and communion with the dawn.

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Paula BRONSTEIN / GETTY IMAGES - THE UNWANTED: BURMA’S ROHINGYAS -

USA

www.paulaphoto.com

Along Burma’s western coast in Rakhine State the situation is quite dire. Years ago the Buddhists who are the majority along with the minority Rohingya lived peacefully together. After a wave of religious violence swept the region approximately 135,000 Rohingya have been closed off for more than two years living as virtual prisoners in over crowded, unsanitary camps. International media and human rights organizations have described Rohingyas as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.

Between January and March this year, around 25,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshis boarded boats run by smugglers which is twice as many as in 2014. Currently an escalating migrant crisis is stranding thousands of refugees at sea as they escape on overcrowded vessels, most are ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar.

Swastik PAL [ WORKSHOP ALUMNI ] - MY UNCLE TUKKA -

INDIA

swastikpal.wordpress.com

This is a very personal project and a tribute to Swastik’s uncle who lost his hearing and speaking ability at a very tender age that later led to an unstable mental condition. Although there are a multitude of social issues here, Swastik focuses on paying tribute to a man, a human being who lived in utmost silence for more than four decades. He breathed his last breath in January 2015.

This story is solely about him, the way he is, with all his perfections and imperfections. One life, one room and how he passes one day at a time. This is his own little space, a room of 10×10, his own and only world. Swastik wanted to be a voice, perhaps his uncle’s response to the way he perceives the world.

He breathed his last breath on 22/01/2015.

Farhad RAHMAN

[ WORKSHOP ALUMNI ]

- SONG OF A COAST -

BANGLADESH

www.mdfarhadrahman.com

The sea changes with time. Land is lost as the past becomes distant. A new story is created with a new settlement. Time changes with changing people’s lives beside the sea. The mood of the coast swings randomly with its changing landscape.

This project started with an aim to portray the changes along the 580km coastline of Bangladesh by the Bay of Bengal.

Tshepiso MAZIBUKO - ENCOUNTERS -

SOUTH AFRICA

Encounters is a series about peoples homes and the aftermath of the apartheid era.

Pavel PROKOPCHIK - AMERIKA -

NETHERLANDS

www.prokopchik.com

The term American Dream is largely associated with the previous generation, when the USA was going through a period of large economic growth. Most of the people from that generation are currently in their golden years. Perhaps it will be the last generation in the USA’s near future that will have the opportunity to retire in such comfort. Pavel grew up in a country that he thought to be the antipode of the USA – the Soviet Union. AMERIKA is his experience of the USA in its period of change. It is an exploration of the myth – the American Dream.

Arjen ZWART - NO ONE DIES AT A GYPSY WEDDING -

NETHERLANDS

An encounter with the Roma in Istanbul provided the impetus for Arjen’s photographic project. Their lifestyle and their ability to survive in a rough environment like Istanbul attracted him to them in 2001. During the following 14 years he has been photographing the members of one Romani family. He saw their children grow up and witnessed important events and stages in their lives.

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EVENING SLIDESHOW PROJECTION MONDAY 7 DEC 2015 - Curated by Françoise Callier All of our evening slideshow projections are powered by the Canon XEED WUX500, thanks to our partnership with iQlick Canon.

THE IMPACT PROJECT Launched in 2014, The Impact Project is a themed showcase in our programme that aims to highlight photography projects about individuals, groups, or small organisations that are making a positive impact on social or environmental issues.

Kadir VAN LOHUIZEN / NOOR IMAGES - MZUZU PRISON -

NETHERLANDS

In collaboration with ‘Young in Prison’, a Dutch NGO that campaigns for the rights of juveniles in prisons, Kadir van Lohuizen travelled to Mzuzu prison in Malawi. The prison holds 450 prisoners, of whom 60 are juveniles. Living conditions are harsh – the prison is so overcrowded the inmates cannot lie down to sleep, and eat once a day. He produced a photo essay documenting the living conditions and day-to-day life of its prisoners. He also led workshops with 11 of the juvenile inmates, many of whom have never touched a camera before.

Daniel CHAN - SCHOOL OF ORPHANS -

MALAYSIA

danielc5592.wordpress.com

The Rohingya is a Muslim minority population in Myanmar that have been subject to ethnic and religious persecution by the government. As a result, the Rohingyas have been fleeing Myanmar to seek refuge elsewhere, with many arriving in Malaysia since the 1980s. Ustaz al- Hafiz Hashim bin Kassimm, a Muslim man from Myanmar, founded Madrasah Hashimiah - a community school and boarding house for orphans and the poor from the refugee Rohingya community in Kuala Lumpur. The school provides temporary shelter for the children, along with basic academic and religious classes.

Find out more: http://hashimiah.blogspot.my

Ann-Christine WOEHRL - YELLAMAS DAUGHTERS -

GERMANY

www.ann-christine-woehrl.com

“We all have the right to be children“ says Prema Kundarghi, as she opens the gate to the orphanage “Ingrid Paradise.” Prema Kundarghi was raised as an orphan herself and knows what she is fighting for: Yellamma’s daughters – girls, aged 5 - 12, who out of Hindu tradition have been promised to the Goddess Yellamma and forced to prostitution. This is a tradition in India that was officially banned in the 1980s, but nonetheless persists in secret under the guise of religion. The orphanage now shelters 26 girls, many of whom are orphans of the Devadasis, the so-called sacred prostitutes.

Suman GHOSH - FRIENDSHIP - BANGLADESH -

BANGLADESH

Since 2002, Friendship Bangladesh has been working to help address the needs of remote and marginalised communities in Bangladesh. Their mission is to contribute to an environment of justice and equity that empowers the people. They have served 9.2 million remote underprivileged people, most of them living in chars. They have developed innovative hospital ships, educated children at their primary schools, provided adult literacy classes and offered the people access to justice and legal services.

Patrick FIROUZIAN / GLOBAL ROOTS - FISH AND MORNING GLORY (LAKE CLINIC CAMBODIA) - FRANCE

globalroots.org

Tonle Sap lake provides over 70% of the proteins consumed in Cambodia. When there are less fish, costs increase and families living on makeshift floating houses struggle to provide food and safety for their children. Lake Clinic and Global Roots collaborated to pioneer a floating garden technique. They have worked with Sok’s family to build a small vegetable floating garden to help improve nutrition and sustain their livelihood with supplemental income from the sale of vegetables, allowing the children to go to school.

FROM THE HEART: WESTMEAD CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Emmanuel ANGELICAS - Operating Theatres Gilbert BEL-BACHIR - Delta Society Therapy Dogs Geordie CARGILL - Clowns AUSTRALIA “From the Heart” is a photographic and video project documenting the life of the Children’s Hospital at Westmead. The photographers had access to different areas of the Hospital, capturing images from behind the scenes as well as brave young patients, their families and dedicated staff. The Children’s Hospital at Westmead is world-renowned for providing the best care for sick children and their families. This specialist care, combined with community education, advocacy for improved child health and ground-breaking research into childhood illnesses, is blended within a positive, caring and healing environment.

Find out more: fromtheheart.org.au

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Tatevik VARDANYAN - FUTURE VOTERS -

ARMENIA

tatevikvardanyan.com

Since Armenia gained independence, no election held since has ever been regarded as fair. Tatevik wanted to be a part of the election process and to research and understand the elections. He became an observer for the ‘Presidential Elections of Armenia’ and the ‘Yerevan Council of Aldermen’ elections, and realized that the country still has a long way to go before achieving truly fair elections. “One thing that gives me hope was the kids who came with their parents to vote and to learn what the process was and why it was happening. I will never forget the emotions on the kids’ faces. Each of them were so proud to be there and to be a part of something big,” he says.

Lionel JUSSERET - SCENE OF CHILDHOOD -

BELGIUM

www.lioneljusseret.com

The French association ‘J’interviendrais’ offers autistic kids an opportunity to live collectively in different country houses. Most of these children do not speak. Communication is always a magical story. It is unique for every child. There is no manual to enter their world. Immersion is powerful, the work is exhausting. The idea is to find a gateway with every kid, and they only open the door if they want to. Lionel Jusseret began to photograph these kids after two years among them.

Find out more: http://www.jinterviendrais.com

Melanie DORNIER - BALAKNAMA, SLUM KID REPORTERS -

FRANCE

www.melaniedornier.com

Ten years ago, two street children in Delhi formed Badhte Khadam – Walking Forward, and created their own newspaper, Balaknama, Children’s Voices, which is into its 50th edition. Balaknama’s reporters are between 12 and 17 years old, and they write about the struggles of working children’s life on the street, drugs and abuse, missing children, labour and education laws, as well as stories of success and bravery. In India, where are more than 60 million children who are forced to work, the power of the pen informs them about the value of education. Many continue their education through distance learning.

Find out more: http://www.chetnango.org

Sophal TRY

[ WORKSHOP ALUMNI ]

- IKKT -

CAMBODIA

Throughout history Khmer silk weaving has been regarded among the best in the world. However, after years of war, this ancient art form was almost lost following disruption of Khmer lifestyle and culture in Cambodia. In 1996, Morimoto Kikuo founded the Institute For Khmer Traditional Textiles, specialising in the revival of the Cambodian silk ikat. His mission is to rejuvenate the Cambodian textiles tradition and revive the traditional method of silk farmin. Little by little, an entire village has appeared. The institute has since planted a traditional forest where everything from the natural dyes to the silk can be harvested in the rich natural environment.

Thierry MICHEL - DR MUKWEGE -

BELGIUM

Dr Mukwege has helped thousands of women who were raped during the 20 years of conflict in the east of DR Congo, one of the poorest countries in the world. After receiving death threats, the pastor doctor now lives cloistered in his Bukavu hospital, under the protection of peacekeepers. However, it is no longer only his struggle. At his side are the women he had helped repair their physical strength and find their dignity. Thanks to him, they are now the activists seeking justice and peace.

Jitu KALITA - FOREST MAN OF INDIA -

INDIA

In 1979, Jadav Payeng started to plant a forest on Majuli Island, a riverine island on the banks of the River Brahmaputra in India.

It all began with a dream he had to plant trees on barren land for small animals and birds to build their homes on the tree tops.

He has been dubbed ‘Forest Man of India’ and the lush forest now covers 1,000 hectares of land, home to wild elephants, tigers, rhinos and deer.

Eric SANDER - DR BEAT RICHNER & KANTHA BOPHA -

FRANCE

In 1974, Dr. Beat Richner worked at the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital in Phnom Penh. When the Khmer Rouge overran Cambodia, he was forced to return to Switzerland. Returning almost 20 years later, Dr Beat saw the devastation that had taken place after conflicts with the Khmer Rouge and Vietnam. He was asked to re-open and re-built Kantha Bopha by the Cambodian government. It was reopened in November 1992. Since then, the foundation has funded the expansion of Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals to include five hospitals in total, providing treatment free of charge and an International Postgraduate Course.

Find out more: http://www.beat-richner.ch/

ZEPPELIN - YVES MARRE, THE SOLIDARY SAILOR -

FRANCE

Yves Marre sailed from France to Bangladesh in 1994 on a large river barge with the will to transform it into a floating hospital in the country. With his wife Run, he created the NGO Friendship, aimed to provide health and emergency aid. With the support of friends, he created M.S.R.S (Maritime Security and Rescue Society at Sea) in Bangladesh to help enhance security and to improve the conditions of the people living at the Bay of Bengal. With Marc Van Peteghem, a boatwright, they developed and produced the first unsinkable boats for the fishermen, the Moon Boat.

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Patrick FIROUZIAN / GLOBAL ROOTS - KENYAN SCHOOLS AND GREENHOUSE SYNERGIES - FRANCE

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Mtito Andei is a rural town in Kenya that has been hard hit by both climate change and the AIDS epidemic. The Global Roots Children’s Garden at Matangini Elementary School has funded a greenhouse fitted with an optimal water drip system and has convinced impoverished families to send their children back to school. Keeping children in school is critical because Mtito Andei is a place where unattended boys are forcibly recruited into gangs and unskilled girls forced into a lifetime of sexual slavery.

Abdollah HEIDARI - CHILDREN WITH NO IDENTITY - IRAN Due to the Soviet invasion, three decades of intense civil war, insecurity and poor economic conditions, large numbers of Afghans have immigrated to neighbouring countries such as Iran. Many get married to Iranian women so as to receive legal residency. These illegal marriages have resulted in hundreds of thousands of children without birth certificates and identity in Iran. Lacking birth certificates, they cannot enter the education system, and are also without legal rights, civil rights, health rights, and security. Fortunately, some NGO are trying to take care of these children...

Find out more: www.sosapoverty.org

George NICKELS - TRAINING FOR THE K5 BELT -

UK

www.georgenickels.com

Cambodia is still one of the most landmine-affected countries in the world. Over 64,000 landmine and other explosive remnants of war casualties have been recorded in Cambodia since 1979. With over 25,000 amputees, Cambodia has the highest ratio of mine amputees per capita in the world.

The Belgian NGO Apopo, which has been training African giant poached rats in Tanzania, Angola and Mozambique to detect explosives and tuberculosis, came to teach a demining platoon from the Cambodian Mine Action Center on how to use these giant rats to locate landmines and unexploded ordinances. The project will target six northwestern districts close to the K5 Belt, near the border between Thailand and Cambodia ; one of the densest concentration of mines on the planet.

Fernando MOLERES

/ PANOS PICTURES

- BREAKING THE CIRCLE -

SPAIN

Fernando’s documentary project is focused on the lives of six young former prisoners from the maximum-security prison of Pademba, where they were serving time alongside 1,300 adult prisoners under terrible conditions. The juveniles are released after long periods in prison without rehabilitation. Some returned to the streets after their release, and three of them got into conflict with the law and returned to prison. In 2012, Fernando founded Free Minor Africa’s social rehabilitation program to help juveniles in conflict with law.

Find out more: http://www.freeminorafrica.org

Anne ACKERMANN - WAKALIWOOD -

GERMANY

www.anneackermann.com

It’s not Hollywood, Bollywood, nor Nollywood – its Wakaliwood. Located in the slum of Wakaliga in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, Isaac Nabwana and his kung fu fighting movie stars have left no doubt that they are the next big thing when it comes to action movies made in Africa. Against all odds of growing up as one of 20 siblings with his grandmother in a slum, Isaac has produced more than 40 action movies with each not costing more than $150. His movies have been watched online by millions of people all over the world.

SKATEISTAN skateistan.org Jessica FULTON-DOBSON, Paballo THEKISO, Rudi JEGGLE, Sam JAM AFGHANISTAN, SOUTH AFRICA, CAMBODIA Skateistan is an award-winning international NGO that uses skateboarding as a tool for empowering youth, to create new opportunities and the potential for change. Located in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa, Skateistan is the first international development initiative to combine skateboarding with educational outcomes. The NGO focuses on at-risk youth ages 5-18. Over 40% of Skateistan students are girls. Over 50% of Skateistan students are street working children. Skateistan currently works with over 1,200 youths weekly.

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Marco GUALAZZINI - HAITI: 5 YEARS AND 54 SECONDS LATER -

ITALY

www.marcogualazzini.com

On 12 January, 2010 Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince, was flattened by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake, which lasted for 54 never-ending seconds, killed over 220,000 people, left 300,000 injured and half a million homeless. Five years after this catastrophic event the Caribbean island is still in a disastrous state: 250,000 people still have no homes, only a tiny fraction of hospitals and schools have been rebuilt and the cholera epidemic, which erupted in the months following the earthquake, has still not subsided.

There is, however, another Haiti - one of stories of individuals and daily acts of heroism impregnated with hope - that some of the international media have reported on in a piecemeal manner. Marco’s photo feature gathers together and tells the stories of these individual experiences, demonstrating how the rebirth of a nation and hope in the future begin with the involvement of each and every individual.

Brennan O’CONNOR CANADA www.brennanoconnor.photoshelter.com - DIVIDING LINES – BURMA, THAILAND & CHINA Dividing Lines profiles some of the countless millions pushed against and over Burma’s borders following decades of civil war between ethnic armed groups and several military regimes. Many are displaced ethnic minorities that have been uprooted by conflict. They make up thousands of internally displaced persons in the country. Others have left the country only to languish for decades ‘warehoused’ in overcrowded Thai refugee camps. More numerous are economic refugees that have suffered from unemployment and extreme poverty in their homeland forcing them to seek work in Thailand, China or India.

Lucas FOGLIA - A NATURAL ORDER -

USA

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Lucas Foglia grew up with his extended family on a small farm in the suburbs of New York City. While his family followed many of the principles of the back-to-the-land movement, by the time he was 18 they owned three tractors, four cars, and five computers.

This mixture of the modern world in their otherwise rustic life made him curious to see what a completely self-sufficient way of living might look like.

From 2006 through 2010, Foglia travelled throughout the South-Eastern United States befriending, photographing, and interviewing a network of people who left cities and suburbs to live off the grid.

Cédric GERBEHAYE

/ AGENCE VU’

- A VIEW FROM THE MIDDLE -

BELGIUM

After spending most of his life abroad, Cedric Gerbehaye went back to Belgium.

Belgium, a cramped country born in 1830, is now at a turning point. A tipping point or a critical threshold? Having now moved past separatist ideologies and industrial restructuring plans, what does this society, said to be used to compromise, look like? A far cry from the fictional self-mocking Belgium, Cédric Gerbehaye presents a homeland of people and strategies focused on survival. He offers an interlude of images and interpretations that unveil his real Belgium.

Federico Rios ESCOBAR - IDENTIDAD -

COLOMBIA

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Identidad is a review of how conflict has directly affected the roots of Colombians. The Nukak Maku, one of the world’s last nomadic tribes, the Wayuu people of Guajira, the Amazonian village of Uitoto and the Embera Katio, a village of Indians living in the Colombian Pacific, all share the pain and misfortune of being victims of a foreign conflict, forgotten and neglected by the government. With the passage of time they will lose their language, customs, traditions and knowledge.

Women are essential in any society, and this tribute is reflected on the faces of four women from around the country. Even though speak so many different languages that they could not interact with each other, the struggles, structure of their society and their way of life are the same.

Igor PISUK - DECEITFUL REVERENCE -

POLAND

www.igorpisuk.com

In this long-term project Igor tries to be honest to his inner feelings and dreams. This cycle is a kind of poem, a diary entry, and also a confession. It is a multi-layered story about loneliness and emigration, an individual, personal look at the inner and outer world, which is constantly stirred and interacting with one another.

Thomas CRISTOFOLETTI / RUOM - POLYGAMY INC. - ITALY

www.thomascristofoletti.com

Although polygamy is legal in Malaysia, it is rarely practiced in the open or with the knowledge and approval of all the wives involved in such a relationship. However, one company in the country - Global Ikhwan - only employs women, who view polygamy as the integral element of “the Islamic way of life.” Global Ikhwan is a Malaysia-based multinational company associated with the banned Al-Arqam Islamic sect.

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Myriam MELONI / PICTURETANK - BEHIND THE ABSENCE -

FRANCE-ITALY

www.myriammeloni.com

In the Republic of Moldova, the poorest country in Eastern Europe, over 100,000 children and adolescents are growing up without their parents. They are social orphans whose fathers and mothers have emigrated in search of a job that will enable them to survive, driven by the hope to ensure a better future for their families. Due to the direct and indirect consequences of mass migration, involving one fourth of Moldova’s working-age population, thousands of children are being raised by their fragile grandparents or are placed in ramshackle orphanages. The money sent home by emigrants, worth some $500 million per year, is now the driving force of internal consumption in Moldova, but the other side of the coin is deep rifts in the country’s social fabric.

Sri KOLARI [ WORKSHOP ALUMNI ] - INDIA: THE LAND OF MILLION MUTINIES - INDIA India’s Northeast, also known as the land of the seven sisters, comprises the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura, which collectively accounts for about 8 per cent of the country’s geographical area and roughly 4 per cent of its population. The region is known for its ethnic, linguistic, cultural, religious and physiographical diversity.

History has been a mute witness to the fact that New Delhi doesn’t give much heed and importance to the region, as long as it remains a part of the Indian Union – A Buffer state just good enough to keep China – The Dragon at bay.

The Central Government is not doing enough to develop the region and to bring it on par with the other states of the Indian mainland. Time and again, New Delhi has often cited the presence of ‘Many Revolutionary Groups’ in the region as one of the main reason for not releasing adequate funds to the region.

Brendan HOFFMAN / PRIME COLLECTIVE - BROTHERLAND: WAR IN UKRAINE - USA

www.brendanhoffman.com

Eastern Ukraine has been convulsed in a civil war centred in the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, an industrial region known as the Donbass.

At heart is a desire among the rebels for greater autonomy, out of widespread fear—justified or not—that Russian-speaking Ukrainians are at risk of political repression by the government in Kyiv. Russian propaganda has carried this storyline further, implying that the Ukrainian government is comprised of fascists and backed by neo-Nazi Ukrainian nationalists.

Ukraine’s economy has taken a massive blow. Huge expenditures on the war effort, combined with the loss of Crimea and much of the industrial output of Donbass, mean that international bailouts intended to stave off default may yet prove insufficient.

Manuel BAUER / FOCUS / COSMOS SWITZERLAND www.manuelbauer.ch - THE DALAÏ LAMA, A PICTORIAL PORTRAIT PROJECT The Pictorial Portrait Project is a comprehensive visual archive of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, whose non-violent engagement for Tibet and for peaceful cohabitation places him among the most outstanding personalities of our time. The project is the work of Swiss photographer Manuel Bauer, renowned for his work on Tibet and the Tibetan diaspora.

The Pictorial Portrait Project is under the patronage of The Private Office of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

Renaud PHILIPPE / HANS LUCAS - EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH: NEPAL - CANADA

www.renaudphilippe.com

Situated in the northern part of the Gorkha district of Nepal, Barpak was the epicentre of the earthquake that shook Nepal last April.

Ferhat BOUDA / AGENCE VU’ - ORAN, ON KAMEL DAOUD’S TRACES - ALGERIA

www.bouda-photographie.com

In the city of Oran, Ferhat Bouda met Algerian intellectual and journalist Kamel Daoud. “To be Algerian is to be schizophrenic,” says Daoud, as he confides his feelings about his nation. As a symbol of free speech in his country and a defender of individual freedom, the intellectual collided with radical Muslims, who in Dec 2014, claimed a fatwa against him. To him, Algeria is torn between Western capitalism and religious dogmas, and Algerians still have to take over their own identity. Oran is the reflection of this tension. Between fresh starts and tradition, freedom and introspection, a complex wind lulls Oran beautiful coast which inspired Albert Camus and his contradictory modern counterpart , Kamel Daoud.

Michael Vince KIM - THE KOREANS OF KAZAKHSTAN -

USA

www.michaelvincekim.com

In 1937, 180,000 Koreans that had settled in the Russian Far East to escape famine, poverty, and Japanese colonial oppression were forcefully deported to Central Asia under Stalin’s ethnic cleansing. 40,000 Koreans died during the month-long journey.

They were left with no means of survival or the compensation they had been promised. Starvation and illness became commonplace, they lived in earth dugouts while being ordered to grow rice in the desertic Kazakh steppe. The Koreans received medals of honour for their hard labour and success in collective farms as well as their participation in war, yet they were denied the right to learn their own language. Along with cultural assimilation and intermarriage, the Soviet Korean dialect is almost extinct. Nevertheless, the Koreans of Kazakhstan have retained a sense of identity as ethnic Koreans as well as traditions and rituals are still practiced in the Korean peninsula today.

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Rahul Kumar DAS - SANGUINITY -

BANGLADESH

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If Cubist sculptor Jacques Lipchitz claimed that art is a denial of death, then photographer Rahul Kumar Das audaciously disproves this assertion in his photographic essay “Sanguinity.” In his piece, Das becomes not only witness to, but also documentarian of the art of dying. What makes this work all the more striking is that the subject is the artist’s father.

During the last three years of his father’s life, Das became his primary caretaker. Remaining true to his artist soul, he employs his camera to capture the disturbing paradox of the human condition in its final days: indignity and dignity, frailty and resilience, sadness and beauty, love and fear.

Jost FRANKO - FARMING ON THE FRONTLINE -

SLOVENIA

www.jostfranko.com

A story about Palestinian farmers, living and working in the buffer zones, before and after the 2014 war.

Tadas ČERNIAUSKAS - BLOW JOB - LITHUANIA

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“My studio is located in loft block in Vilnius and they have an annual tradition to have an Open Day for everyone who wants to visit. That was new to me, so I wanted to makes something that would be entertaining, make people laugh and that everyone could participate in the process.

The idea to blow wind in to the face and make a portrait somehow came to my head instantly.

It took me only few seconds to take one picture. The person in front of my camera had to breath in and hold it until my assistant blew 300km/h of wind into his or her face.”

Olivier LABAN-MATTEI / MYOP - ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE - FRANCE

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More than 18,000 people have already come here in search of safety. On January 3rd, these men and women fled the atrocities of the Boko Haram on the port city of Baga and its surrounding villages. More than 7,000 refugees are scattered across the dozens of islands on the lake. Bringing them all to one place is the only way to help them.

For several days, Laban-Mattei documented the rescue and relocation operations led by the UN Refugee Agency and local authorities. But their efforts have been hindered by the threat of Boko Haram in Chad. On February 13th, Islamists burned and pillaged the village of Ngoubou, killing ten, which until January had served as the main Nigerian refugee camp. The majority of them had been transferred to the Dar es Salaam camp, considered safer at 70 kilometres from the border.

Diambra MARIANI & Francesco MION - ANASTASIA -

ITALY

www.diambramariani.com

Anastasia is now 17 years old and she lives in Verona, northern Italy. She is daughter of street performers. Between 2010 and 2015 she lived in an apartment that the owner Vincenzo, professor of physics, had decided to share with people who find themselves in a state of housing emergency. Her mother Alice, her brother Andrej and their dog Leo were among them.

She now lives on her own in a flat she rent with her boyfriend Andrea.

The photographic project, which initially aimed to investigate an alternative way of living, a sort of cohousing during a period of great economic uncertainty and existential fragility, was then transformed into the story of the delicate and difficult transition from childhood to adolescence and then adulthood, lived in an atypical contest.

Marion NORMAND

/ HANS LUCAS

- BAB EL TEBANNEH -

FRANCE

www.marion-normand.com

For the majority of the inhabitants of the Land of the Cedars, Bab el-Tebbaneh is a jihadist landmark devoid of morality; a hopeless territory of which we can only condemn the existence and attempt to isolate. Women and children try to live between bursts of bullets, locked in a cycle of violence that they cannot escape. But between two mortars and a patrol of army tanks (the area once dubbed “golden door” for its rich market) you can see a young married couple in the process of moving, a young man running to class at the University, and his sister running to her football training.

Tim J. VELING - D / P / O - NEW ZEALAND

www.timjveling.com

Dad, Pete, Opa. This was how Tim’s father and friend, Peter Veling, would sign off his text messages. In October 2014, Tim and his family found out his father had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Over the coming months, twice a day, his wife Lizzie and himself would bundle their seven-month-old daughter in the car and drive over to spend time with his father. He drew his last breath on March 24th, 2015.

Miquel DEWEVER PLANA

/ AGENCE VU’

- HACH WINIK -

FRANCE

www.miquel-dewever-plana.com

As a child, I always dreamed of living in the forest, with the Lacandons Indians, Hach Winik, or - “real men”. I can’t remember how I got to know them, but for almost ten years now, I have never stopped coming back, and the happiness of sharing their daily life remains the same.

In front of this changing world, I needed time to forget about all the clichés that my mind had built and to realize that a people’s essence is not in what it shows, but, on the contrary, in what it keeps for itself, in what it hides and keeps secret.

Lacandons were the last free and independent people of the Chiapas. They are probably the descendants of the Mayas from the Yucatan peninsula, in Mexico, and from Pétén, in Guatemala, who escaped the Spanish colonization in the 18th century, and took refuge under the great protector trees of Chiapas, the territory of their ancestors.

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EVENING SLIDESHOW PROJECTION WEDNESDAY 9 DEC 2015 All of our evening slideshow projections are powered by the Canon XEED WUX500, thanks to our partnership with iQlick Canon.

IPA HONG KONG & TAIWAN SHOWCASE 2015 Guest Curator: Kevin WY LEE CURATORIAL NOTE

When we talk about photography from East Asia, China and Japan usually dominates conversations and we are exposed too much from these two territories. The invitation by Angkor Photo Festival to curate an evening of slideshows is an opportunity I hope to take to introduce great photography and photographers from Taiwan and Hong Kong to the young Southeast Asian audiences at the festival.

This showcase, featuring 18 photographers of varying experience, age and motivations, is an introductory overview than a comprehensive survey. Logos and symbols from each photographer’s time and place (and proximity to China in every sense of the word) are visible and manifest themselves in various discourses on identity and existentialism.

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Alfred KO Chi-Keung 高志強 - NOCTURNE (2008) -

HONG KONG

Nocturne is Ko’s stark black and white documentary of Hong Kong City at night. The city he presents is void of life and colour, almost apocalyptic. Mundane landscapes, objects, streets and facades become surreal symbols of discontent and rejection.

ALFRED KO CHI-KEUNG, born in Hong Kong, studied photography in the Banff School of Fine Arts in Canada. He returned to Hong Kong in 1977 and has worked as a freelance photographer ever since. In the 1980s, Ko founded the FOTOCINE School of Photography (影藝攝影學校) and the Photo Centre (攝影中心) in Hong Kong. He is also a founding member of the Hong Kong Institute of Professional Photographers. Ko was awarded “Photographer of the Year” by Hong Kong Artists’ Guild in 1992. His works are collected by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and private collectors.

CHAN Dick 陳的 - CHAI WAN FIRE STATION (2014) -

HONG KONG

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Chai Wan Fire Station is Chan Dick’s depiction of the daily lives of the Chai Wan firemen as seen from a birds-eye view from the ventilation window of a washroom at his workshop. The images appear abstract and repetitive. The distance from which the photographs were captured compresses the firemen to miniature figurines. In 2015, the work won the Hong Kong Photo Book Awards.

Chan Dick is a commercial photographer in Hong Kong specialising in still life, interior and architectural photography.

His work has garnered him awards in Hong Kong and Internationally.

CHANG Chao-Tang 張照堂 - TIME (1959–2013) -

TAIWAN

TIME is a selection of photographs from the career of Chang Chao-Tang featured at his first solo retrospective at the Taipei Fine Art Museum. Chang describes his imagery as depicting loss and finding affinity with Taiwan’s Lost Generation. In an essay, Chang writes “My images are of real people and places, but they are not about superficial emotions nor are they just a result of being a witness to events.”

Chao-Tang Chang, born in 1943 in Panchiao City, Taipei County, is one of Taiwan’s most important photographers. Chang began taking pictures as a teenager in high school at the start of the White Terror period, which referred to 38 years of martial law in Taiwan imposed by the Chinese Kuomintang. Chang’s imagery is influenced by the social realist works in literature and surrealist painting. In 2013, he had his first major retrospective exhibition at the Taipei Fine Art Museum.

CHEN Chin-Pao 陳敬寶 - A MOMENT OF BEAUTY: BETEL NUT GIRLS -

TAIWAN

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Betel Nut Girls are girls hired to attract customers at stands selling betel nuts popular in Taiwan (especially among the labor class), where some people chew them as gum. The phenomenon was born after rapid economic development and radical political improvement in Taiwan. Betel Nuts (Girls) are partially prohibited by Taiwan government due to environmental damage caused by betel nut farming and the illegal hiring of under-age girls.

Chen Chin-Pao went to the Department of Photography of School of Visual Arts in New York in 1996, and earned his degree of BFA with an award for outstanding Achievement three years later. Chen got MFA degree from School of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts in 2013. His latest ongoing project, “Ordinary Household”, is dedicated to depict contemporary Taiwanese domestic life. Chen was awarded The Overseas Photographer Award of The 26th Higashikawa award at 2008. He lives and works in New Taipei City, Taiwan.

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Ducky TSE 謝至德 - THE COLONIAL EXPIRED: 1995-2000 -

HONG KONG

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Shortly before the 1997 Handover, I photographed many ceremonies of the British retreating from Hong Kong as well as people’s daily life and traditional festivals, hoping to explore with images the transition of a city where east meets west. In my work, you’ll find plenty symbols of a colony, tradition, locals, contrasts, and some “Hong Kong” culture doomed to vanish after the Handover, such as Tiu Keng Leng (Little Taiwan) and serving British troops. The pictures were taken to capture to changes and emotions of Hong Kong identity in transition.

Ducky Tse is a prominent documentary photographer in Hong Kong, and a highly productive one at that. He has published a substantial number of publications since the mid-90s including “Close-Up Hong Kong”, one of his several collaborations with Programme for Hong Kong Cultural Studies in Chinese University of Hong Kong. His in-your-face styled street photography, which are clearly influenced by photographers like Gary Winogrand and Bruce Gilden, express well the intangible mental state of the people in the era.

Dustin SHUM 岑允逸 - BLOCKS (2014) -

HONG KONG

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Dustin Shum utilizes his signature topographic work to depict the relationship between individuals and urban spaces and the transformation of Chinese cities and towns in rapidly developing economy. This time he focuses on the public housing in Hong Kong in which he’s a tenant. Wandering in the public space of the various public housing estates through these years, he showcased to us many scenes that looked ridiculous and surreal. The “Eternal City” in Ancient Rome, where buildings from different historical periods co-existed and overlapped in disharmony, was used as a metaphor of the mental lives of human beings.

Dustin Shum was born and currently lives in Hong Kong. He graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Photographic Design. A photojournalist for more than ten years, he now works as a freelance photographer. Shum has received many awards for outstanding documentary photography

over the years, including those by the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Press Photographers Association, World Association of Newspapers and Publishers, and Amnesty International.

GUAN Xiao-Rong 關曉榮 - DIGNITY AND HUMILIATION: A MARGINALIZED TERRITORY IN LANYU (1987) - TAIWAN Lanyu, a small Pacific island southeast of Taiwan, is the home of some five thousand Yami indigenous inhabitants and a few Han Taiwanese residents. Although Lanyu has long been proud of its beautiful natural environment and traditional Yami culture, since 1982 it has been forced to import nuclear waste from Taiwan. In this scandalous coercion to be the storage site of this toxic waste, the Taiwanese government never discussed the scheme with Yami residents nor acquired their permission.

Despite being Han himself, and an outsider, in 1987 Guan stayed on this remote island for the entire year. During this period he established a close comradeship with the Yami people, investigating the devastating environmental, social, and cultural policies put into effect by the Taiwanese Han government.

Guan Xiao-Rong was born in 1949 in China’s Hainan Island. In 1972, Guan graduated from the Taiwan Junior College of Art. His work of Lanyu and the plight of the Yami people has been published in three volumes containing nine photographic essays and eleven reports. As a practitioner, Guan constantly shifts roles between a documentary photographer and an anti–nuclear waste activist. Guan is currently working to complete his new documentary project titled “Ice and blood.”

Johnny GIN 甄祖伦 - THE ARCHITECTURE OF INSURGENCY (2014) -

HONG KONG

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Since the first barricades were erected as a form of neighborhood defense in the 1500s, these makeshift structures have maintained their significance as a powerful symbol of protest and uprising well into modern times, most recently in Hong Kong’s Occupy Movement, during which major intersections and roadways in the city were blocked off by protesters demanding universal suffrage.

The spontaneous barricades in Central were erected with great expediency and resolve, and seemingly little regard to formal aesthetics. Over time, their configurations were continuously reshaped like communal sculptural objects that are perpetually “works in progress.” These provisional, adaptive structures are viewed as a type of vernacular expression arising from protest culture, representing the material and metaphorical emblems of an anonymous, ideological collective.

Set against a backdrop of Government buildings and monolithic office towers, this somewhat “nostalgic” mode of resistance encircled a singular “privatized public” space, underscoring the dialectical relationship between traditional power structures and their subversive counterparts.

Johnny Gin is a copywriter and photographer living and working in Hong Kong. His life-long academic background is eclectic: an undergraduate education in English Literature, followed by graduate degrees in Communications and Library Science. He is now enrolled in an MFA Photography program at SCAD HK. His photographic interest lies in the examination of urban spaces and vernacular environments and the ways in which these spaces inform us about the culture and identity of a city. His personal and student work have been exhibited in Hong Kong and in Savannah, Georgia.

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LAM Chun Tung 林振東 - WE LIVE -

HONG KONG

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The majority of these elderly people in Hong Kong grew up in the upheavals and miseries of war and poverty in the 1930s and 1940s, experiencing throughout their lives the firing of arms, starvation, fleeing, separation, diverse emotions, yet were not solaced in their old age by stability.

In this project, I tried my best to use an equal, subtle and peaceful vision to get near the life of every elderly person, unfold the wisdom therein and capture those ordinary yet energetic moments. These episodes in life sometimes remind me of Ozu Yasujirō’s movies. Though from different countries and different ages, they are all about the lives of ordinary people. Ozu Yasujirō once remarked, the success or failure of a movie depends on its aftertaste. To me, the same applies to life. While the lives of these 18 elderly persons appear to be ordinary, they are filled with a strong pleasant aftertaste.

Lam Chun Tung was born in Hong Kong and started his career as a photojournalist in 2000. He worked in The Sun, Ming Pao, AM730 and currently works for a newly established media based in Hong Kong. He has won 23 awards of photojournalism including the Best Photograph Award of the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong, Merits (Photo Categories), the Human Rights Press Awards, Excellence in News Photography and Feature Photography of the SOPA Awards, and prizes in the “Focus at the Frontline” organized by the Hong Kong Press Photographers Association.

Between 2011 and 2012 he served as Chairman of the Hong Kong Press Photographers Association. He collaborated with non-profit human rights organization Society for Community Organization to document life moments of grassroots elderly for three years and launched the photo exhibition and book We Live in 2015. He is now devoted in documenting political and social issues of Hong Kong whilst exploring personal photo projects.

LAM Yik Fei 林亦非 - UMBRELLA MOVEMENT (2014) - HONG KONG

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This set of photos documented the sit-in protests, known as the Umbrella Movement or the Occupy Movement, in Hong Kong that began in September 2014. The protesters called for a “genuine universal suffrage”, which they saw it is restricted by the decision by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China as the Communist Party has control over the candidate nomination. On 28 September, the authorities unleashed tear gas to disperse the crowds who wield umbrellas and face masks. It triggered more citizens to join the protests, occupying Causeway Bay and Mong Kok. In November and December, the occupation sites were cleared and it marked the end of the movement.

Lam Yik Fei is the Director of Photography at Initium Media in Hong Kong. Lam also works on assignment for various international media. His works are distributed worldwide via Getty Images and Bloomberg News Photos. They appear on International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, The Guardian and other leading publications.

LAU Chi Chung 劉智聰 - LANDSCAPED ARTIFACTS (2013) -

HONG KONG

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We bring destruction to the land, the moment we begin to build.

We construct a myriad of architectural structures on borrowed spaces.

Only to give them up, decades later, and back to Nature, who reinhabits the land and rejuvenates the deserted artifacts.

Generous and humble, Nature never fails to clean up the messes we created.

The force of Nature permeates and shapes my creation.

Seasonal changes make the process of creating my work a volatile one.

Capturing the ruins amidst Nature, my work bears witness to lived lives and passed time.

We have made our marks on the land we once walked.

Nature now takes her turn to give it a makeover Not to turn back the clock, but to transform into an environmental sculpture.

Artificial angular contours lushly laminated.

Let the past sleep. For when the new day comes, what await us is a contemporary interpretation of the old landscaped artifacts.

Lau Chi-Chung is a freelance photographer with many years of experience working as art director in TV commercial productions in Hong Kong. He graduated in United Kingdom with a B.A. degree in interior design.

Chung’s work has been exhibited in various countries, and is collected by museums and private collectors. His photography series “Landscaped Artifacts” (2013) won him the New Photography Artist of the year at Lianzhou Foto 2013.

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Paul YEUNG 楊德銘 - YES MADAM, SORRY AH SIR (2014) -

HONG KONG

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Following my concern on the collective behavior of common people, I direct my camera lens to the group possessing power: The Police. People with uniforms always attract me. They look professional, highly disciplined, obedient, smart, efficient and emotionless, which are the images and character the government and hundreds of movies deliver onto us.

I observed the police during their work and relaxation for a few years. I always find a tension between the individual and the collective amongst the uniform. Every police is a human who eats, smiles, gets angry, does stupid things, lacks of selfquestioning, have bad luck and loves Hello Kitty. They are ordinary humans, but with weapons and the power to enforce law. On the other hand, they are trained to take collective action very closely and efficiently. Absolute submissiveness to superiors and the peer relationship/pressure always affect their own thought and behavior.

Honghongers like to call policemen as “Ah Sir” and policewomen as “Madam”. It maybe an English tradition from the period under British Colony. This language shows a kind of respect, and even a sense of hierarchy. Through my observation and tableau-like images, I would like to penetrate the Police as a “rigid wall”, and discover a totally different narrative and aesthetics of them.

Paul Yeung (b.1978, Hong Kong) graduated from MA in Image and Communication (Photography) at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2011. Yeung embarked on his profession in photojournalismin 2000 after graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

Yeung has also worked extensively as a photo editor and lecturer. He was a former chairman of the Hong Kong Press Photographers Association (HKPPA), and has received more than 15 awards from The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong and HKPPA. At the Hong Kong Photography Festival 2010, he was selected as one of Fourteen Hong Kong New Generation Photographers.

YEN Peng-Chun 顏鵬峻 - AFTERWORLD -

TAIWAN

Afterworld means the world after death. These series of picture were all taken inside a small pumping station in Taipei. Inside the station seems very desolate, which is out of tune with the urban cityscape of Taipei. The water stains caused by raindrops appear to create proof of life in the lifeless environment. In this barren landscape located inside a city, it is like walking on the road of the Afterworld, trying to find the next exit to reincarnation.

Peng-Chun Yen, born in 1975, is working as a graphic designer. He has loved drawing since he was little, and aimed to be a painter. Although he is not a full time painter now, his job is still related to “painting”. While busy with the job, he doesn’t have much time to pick up his brush. Therefore, he uses the camera as his brush to create art works, putting what he sees, thinks and imagines into frame.

SHEN Chao-Liang 沈昭良 - STAGE (2011) -

TAIWAN

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Performing groups in the form of cabarets, song and dance ensembles, recreational bands, or even in the name of entertainment companies, are mobile performing troupes endemic to Taiwan, where their customer base and show content are inextricably interlinked. They have been around since the 1970s, with song and dance performances as their principal act, and have made regular appearances in all sorts of occasions—from weddings, funerals to festivities. Stage trucks, the subject of this photo series, are mobile “carriers” exploited by the said performing groups still active and widespread in Taiwan’s plebeian society, molding the collective memory of the Taiwanese people.

Shen Chao-Liang was born in Tainan, Taiwan, in 1968. He obtained his masters degree from the Graduate School of the Applied Media Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts. He worked as a photojournalist and Vice Convenor for the Entertainment, Art and Literature News Center of the Liberty Times, the Artist in Residence at National Central University, Taiwan, and Chairman, Portfolio Review Committee, Young Art Taipei. Shen has been dedicated to feature photography since 1993. From his early works of Reflections of Nan-Fang-Ao (2001) to the latter series of YULAN Magnolia Flower (2008), Tsukiji Fish Market (2010) , STAGE (2011) and SINGERS & STAGES (2013), he has been recognized by his sophisticated style of image creation and commitment to documenting the evolution of Taiwan society.

Terry NG 吳漢曦 - BORDER (2012-2015) -

HONG KONG

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The Hong Kong – Mainland China border has been permanently changing – a fact reiterated with the news reporting that the Frontier Closed Area is gradually being reduced in its size. Established since 1951, this closed area was once expanded in 1962 but now, the whole border area has shrunk.

People from both sides of the border can gain access to the opposite side at the Control Points – which signify a manifestation of the tension between the two systems that coexist side by side. Yet, it looks as if we can never have a firm grasp of the transformation of the situation.

It is what prompted my thoughts on our ever-changing border, which may show us the answers to the many questions arising from this transformation.

Ng Hon-hei, Terry (吳漢曦) (b. 1981, Hong Kong) received Postgraduate Diploma in Photography from School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong in 2012. He is currently studying Master of Visual Arts in Hong Kong Baptist University.

Project ‘Border’ was exhibited in the group exhibition ‘Yuen Yeung — Contemporary Hong Kong Photography’ of 2013 Lianzhou Foto in Mainland China between Nov and Dec 2013, and will be exhibited in forthcoming solo exhibition in Hong Kong gallery Lumenvisum’ between Aug and Oct 2015.

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TOU Yun-Fei 杜韻飛 - MOMENTO MORI (2011-2012) -

TAIWAN

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Utilizing the classical portrait style that artists have used throughout history, these images record the last moments of life for dogs found in public pounds run by government agencies in Taiwan. The images are taken on the actual day that each animal depicted is euthanized. Through these portraits the viewer is confronted with an irreversible past and witnesses the decay of life, moments before death. These nameless animals, by virtue of the size at, which they are printed and the approximations to human scale, are transformed into existence.

As you engage with the dog, the dog returns the scrutiny. The relationship between seeing and being seen, between the subject and object reverses and the discriminatory hierarchy is lessened. The status of power between humans and other salient beings, those considered “the other” is diminished.

The images presented in the MEMENTO MORI act as the artist’s own self-portrait whereby one can look back and in retrospect reflect upon times of confusion and despair; the pains of both spirit and body; the desire for exit and the fear of death; and witness the melancholia.

Yun-Fei Tou ( b . 1 9 7 5 ) graduated from Rhode Island School of Design receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1998.

Between 1999 and 2009, he worked as a professional photojournalist. Since 2010, he has independently pursued fine art photography while focusing on various social issues in Taiwan, where he lives. His work incorporates a variety of artistic and conceptual approaches.

MEMENTO MORI has been exhibited in many international as well as local art spaces and galleries; It has also been published in numerous news and media circles around the world including: Der Spiegel, Daily Mail, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, and the Huffington Post. In 2011, MEMENTO MORI was featured in PROVOCATION, a juried invitational exhibition held during the New York Photo Festival; in 2012, the series was awarded Grand Prize by “The 10th Taoyuan Creation Award” in Taiwan. MEMENTO MORI was also recognized by PhotoShelter as being a “Notable Photography Project” in 2012.

Vincent YU 余偉建 - JAPAN 311 (2011) -

HONG KONG

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As a photo-journalist, Vincent Yu benefits from the handy iPhone and has used it to capture the recent Japan earthquake aftermath, the resulted ‘Japan 311’ series is a selection from thousands of snapshots. Unlike the relax and casual practice of iPhoneographers, these heavy images bear a grandeur perspective achieved as taken by a tradition medium format camera; the techno-friendliness of the mobile phone releases the burden of the photographer while working in an unpleasant environment.

French philosopher Roland Barthes once published “The Empire of Signs” (1970) to decipher the symbols as seen from the Japan lived culture; with the flair of Japanese photographers shooting the relics in the post-war Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Vincent Yu has succeeded to address Japan’s present catastrophic condition and manifests it into iPhone photos under a canopy of discontented symbolic images.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Vincent Yu has worked as a photojournalist covering major news events across the Asia Pacific region since 1985. As a close observer of Hong Kong’s rapid development, Yu has acquired a special sensitivity towards its ever-changing cityscape. In particular, he is interested in documenting disappearing heritage and architecture as well as communities affected by these changes.

His works have been recognized by many honours, including the 2004 National Headliner Awards, 2010 World Press Photo Awards 3rd Prize “People in the News” single category, 2013 Picture of the Year Awards Award of Excellence “Photographer of the Year“ and numerous Hong Kong Press Photographers Association Annual Awards. His works are collected by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum.

WONG Kan Tai 黃勤帶 - 89 TIANANMEN: REMAINS FOR COLLECTION -

HONG KONG

An uncanny feeling of nostalgic loss momentously germinated when the image of a young man strangely captured my attention after a twenty-year lapse on a developing dish inside a dark room. In a willy-nilly stance of peeping into the Pandora Box of remembrance, one admits to the time long gone.

Through the aura light coming from the color assessment cabinet, I began an archival examination of some black-and-white master negatives, those taken at a time during the student democratic movement at the Tiananmen Square in Spring 1989, and from which re-searching the youthful energies long lost at Chang-an Boulevard.

Not naturally, witnessing once again the piles of youthful remains sets off the time-travelling imaginative process of their contemporary whereabouts. After all, that remains to be the best of times for Chinese beings when the Chinese soil has been inscribed upon of their blood and tears.

Wong Kan Tai was born in Lantau Island, Hong Kong in 1957. He joined the Hong Kong Press in the late 1970s and started his long career as a photojournalist. His photographic collections published include ’89 Tiananmen, Land Reclaim and Hong Kong Walled City 2002 - 2007. Wong now lives in Japan and works as a freelance photographer.

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EVENING SLIDESHOW PROJECTION FRIDAY 11 DEC 2015

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Chiara GOIA - MALDIVES: A DELICATE BALANCE -

ITALY

The Maldives is an island nation of 1,192 islands stretched over 900 kilometres in the Indian Ocean. They are a memory to become.

A place in continuous transformation, into its own duality: a touristic, heavenly escape from usual life and one of the first countries in the world that, according to scientists, will disappear from the geographical maps.

Chiara photographed the Maldives between 2009 and 2011, documenting the first years in which the local life was finally unveiled after the 30 year dictatorship and showing its contradictions as well as its preciousness and vulnerability.

Hiroshi WATANABE - SARUMAWASHI -

JAPAN-USA

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When Hiroshi grew up in Japan, Sarumawashi (pronounced SA-ROO-MA-WA-SHE) was a common thing to see on streets of towns and villages. These small monkeys would be dressed up, doing tricks, dancing and acting like miniature people. However, they are mostly a thing of the past now.

Hiroshi revisited these monkey theatre companies and photographed the monkeys. In front of the camera, the monkeys stood up straight and struck poses from the plays over and over. Then, after a while, they started to fall back to their own inner selves, revealing their true monkey personalities.

Tomasz TOMASZEWSKI - CYGANIE (GYPSIES) -

POLAND

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Today, the Romany population in Europe is estimated at about 12 million - a considerable majority of the 16 million living all over the globe. They were traditionally perceived as strangers, surrounded by distrust, or even spite, they have always existed as isolated groups on the margins of developing European communities - even though their contribution to the general cultural heritage, especially in music, dance and various handicrafts, is unquestionable.

Tomasz traces the lives of present-day Gypsies, confirming his belief that little has changed for the Romany. It seems that we have not yet learned the lesson of tolerance towards people who live differently from ourselves.

Marylise VIGNEAU - PHNOM PENH OF THE FUTURE -

FRANCE

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In April 1975, the city of Phnom Penh was falling, emptied of its inhabitants. A spell of death, destruction and terror followed.

There is recklessness in the air, a very palpable thirst for a modernity that appears to be built on layers of oblivion. Oblivion of history, oblivion of the squalor that lies just two steps away from the golden decor of the latest karaoke bar; as well as an enduring poetry.

Scarlett COTEN - STILL ALIVE -

FRANCE

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Scarlett travels the desert from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Gulf of Suez. Day after day she photograph’s her journey. What goes on, what surrounds her, the people she meets. Her backdrop is the desert, her travels and her stop-offs.

She photographs her hosts; those that ask her to, those that pose. Between reality and fiction, she photographs this inner journey that bears witness to her experience, guided by her inspiration; play and staging bring them together, beyond their different cultures, for a moment of shared happiness.

These photographs are the illustration of the humour, enthusiasm and modernity of these astonishing people. Forgotten, destitute, but alive!

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- ROHINGYA MIGRANT CRISIS -

FRANCE

The Rohingya Muslim minority has been living for generations in western Myanmar, bordering Bangladesh. Since they are not recognised by the Burmese authorities, they live in a regime of discrimination in Rakhine state.

In 2012, violent riots broke out between Buddhist Rakhine and Rohingya Muslims, killing dozens of people. Numerous Rohingya villages were razed, and their inhabitants moved to camps for displaced people. These already existed before 2012, but have increased even more since thousands chose to live in exile in hopes for a better future in other countries such as Malaysia and Thailand. Many undertook the journey by sea. They are now in the hands of human traffickers who control the sea routes.

Kürşat BAYHAN - AWAY FROM HOME -

Turkey

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Internal migration was particularly prevalent in early 80’s and during the 90’s, and is a fundamental cause of the rapid change in Turkey today. Migration from rural to urban and from east to west, continues to have its effects on the relocating societies.

The project “Away from Home” which began nearly 5 years ago, covers the inhabitants of Eminonu, Kucukpazar as one of the areas in Istanbul largely populated by migrants. Focusing on the thousands of young migrants who are chasing their hopes and dreams while living under incredibly challenging living conditions.

Only a few are able to achieve their goals of a better life and manage to bring their families to Istanbul.

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Shahria SHARMIN - CALL ME HEENA -

BANGLADESH

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Hijra, a South Asian term with no exact match in the modern western taxonomy of gender, is a person designated as a male at birth with feminine gender identity who eventually adopts feminine gender roles. They are often grossly miss-labeled as hermaphrodites, eunuchs, transgender or transsexual women in literature.

Previously, a particular Hindu belief that Hijras can bless one’s house with prosperity was assimilated in the Muslim culture of Bangladesh. But times have changed and Hijras have lost their admired and often sacred space in the society. Now they make a living by walking around the streets collecting money from shopkeepers, bus and train passengers or by prostitution.

Maryam ASHRAFI - KURDISH WOMEN FIGHTERS -

IRAN-UK

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In the heart of the Middle East, a region plagued by religious fundamentalism and where women are known to be almost invisible in political and social activities, a Kurdish political and social movement has emerged in which women play a substantial practical role in the decision-making process in both politics and the military. The Kurdish freedom fighters are simultaneously fighting on two dissimilar fronts, one being the military fight against IS and other extremist Islamic groups and the other softer, yet crucial political and social war against traditional conservative Middle Eastern beliefs, norms, and values.

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- NIGHT TIME IS HORRIBLE -

SWEDEN

One child misses her bed. Another misses her dark-eyed doll. A third dreams of the old days when her pillow didn’t feel like an enemy.

Two million children have fled Syria, leaving behind their friends, their homes, and their beds. This project follows a dozen of these children to see where they now sleep, now that everything they once had is gone. The journey takes us through seven refugee camps, three countries, and countless traumas.

Juan Manuel Castro PRIETO / AGENCE VU’ - PERU, THE SACRED VALLEY -

SPAIN

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In 1990, Juan Manuel Castro Prieto packed his black & white gear and set off for Peru to do enlarged versions of shots by the great Martín Chambi. He has since made many more trips to the country that is still a source of wonderment for him.

In the footsteps of Martín Chambi, the photographer he admires so much, he used a large format view camera to explore sites photographed by the master, seeking to understand his fascination for the Andes and the influence on his work and life.

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- THE NIGHTS OF PHILIPPE KOUDJINA IN NIAMEY -

NIGER

Niamey is right in the middle of the Sahel desert, dissected by the flow of the majestic Niger River. Photographer-reporter Philippe has been documenting the Niamey nights since 1960. This is the great era of Independences, the joy of living a free discovery, the pride of being African. In the heat of the night the youth is dancing on the frenzied sounds of Afro-Cuban and Zairian rumbas and European twists.

Reiner RIEDLER

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- FAKE HOLIDAYS -

AUSTRIA

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Fake Holidays is a project dealing with consumption of holidays in industrial countries – it deals with the idea of the simulation of nature and the creation of artificial holiday places.

The range of “artificial” experiences available is increasing steadily, as is public acceptance of them, while the rapid pace of technological innovation is making them more realistic all the time. In the long run, widespread interaction with such attractions will likely diminish their novelty value and establish their position as another aspect of entertainment culture. There is no doubt that simulations will increasingly become a part of everyday life – hopefully enhancing it and not replacing it.

Valerio BISPURI / ECHOPHOTOAGENCY ITALY www.valeriobispuri.it - ENCERRADOS, TRAVEL TO SOUTH AMERICAN JAILS Jails are a reflection of society, a mirror of a country both in terms of minor problems and also major economic and social issues.

Valerio spent 10 years travelling through 74 male and female jails in South-America, a different and complex world in which violence and abuse are a part of convicts’ lives.

He saw that in jail convicts struggle because of severe overcrowding and lack of boundaries between inmates. Violence and power hierarchies inside the jails are the direct consequences of these conditions.

He was in contact with prisoners and guards, who live in fear and anger, and with both hope and diffidence. Some convicts considered him a distraction, others looked at him with envy, others with contempt because they thought that he was only there to photograph their confined life.

Noriko HAYASHI / PANOS PICTURES [ WORKSHOP ALUMNI ] - STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN - JAPAN

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Noriko looks at the new ways in which people in Japan are buried and considers the transformations in city landscapes, lifestyle and social structure.

Urban Charnel houses are becoming more popular in Japan as land becomes scarcer and costly as well as the need for easy access from city locations. They do not require maintenance, are indoor so can be visited all year round regardless of the weather, and wheelchair access is readily available. Technology is incorporated in a non-disruptive way with electronic card entry and LED lighting programs.

They are non-discriminatory, inclusive of all individuals regardless of religion, sexual orientation, or background.

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Gabrielle DUPLANTIER - VOLTAR A PORTUGAL -

FRANCE

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“Sometimes I hear the wind blow, And I feel that it was worth being born just to hear the wind blow”

Fernando Pessoa

ZALMAI - DREADS AND DREAMS -

AFGHANISTAN-SWITZERLAND

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Afghan-born photographer Zalmaï was forced to flee to Switzerland at the age of 15 after the 1980 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

As a freelance photographer, Zalmaï has spent years capturing the human cost of war around the world and in his home country, Afghanistan, where he also sees signs of hope. Dreads and Dreams brings together photographs Zalmaï made between 2008 and 2013 against the backdrop of the 14-year U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan that culminated in 2014 with the withdrawal of American troops.

Tiago SANTANA - THE SKY OF LUIZ -

BRAZIL

A story in honor of the centenary of the Brazilian musician Luiz Gonzaga depicting the Gonzaga universe, from their identification with the hinterland, particularly the region of Pernambuco and Ceará Cariri.

“Today, and I think for a long time or forever, will hear his booming voice and see his haughty face every time we walk by places in Brazil. Large, inner city, interior and big city, Luiz Gonzaga will always walk with us out there.”

(Gilberto Gil)

Arno BRIGNON

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- JOSÉPHINE -

FRANCE

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Arno gives us an insight into the love, fears, joys, angers and sorrows of becoming a father and living as a family. He has been photographing his family since 2009, first without paying attention, and then the series starts to build itself, and the photography becomes less spontaneous. He found that after a while, he was not really taking family pictures, he was taking pictures for the series…

Arno says, “So, today, it is time to stop. Time flies and now more than ever it is clear that nothing precludes the night, there is no reason ... and I have yet to dare all.”

Yankang YANG

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- “THE GREAT STRENGTH OF FAITH” / BUDDHISM IN TIBET -

CHINA

Despite unceasing oppression, indoctrination and spying, the photographs taken by Yang Yankang show Buddhism is still alive in Tibet.

For years now, religious communities have organized their religious activities independently. Thanks to the serious political application of free religion practices, everybody shows respect to one another, and daily life remains harmonious.

The black and white pictures of Yang Yangkang in Tibet, photographed in areas of Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and Qinghai, translate the power of faith. Buddhism is seen as an incarnation of a feasible peace in Tibet.

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EVENING SLIDESHOW PROJECTION SATURDAY 12 DEC 2015 - Curated by Françoise Callier All of our evening slideshow projections are powered by the Canon XEED WUX500, thanks to our partnership with iQlick Canon.

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Matt BLACK & Ed KASHI - CALIFORNIA: PARADISE BURNING

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Since 2012, California has been suffering through a historically severe drought that has affected over 90% of the Golden State.

Residents continue to reel from the consequences as another rainy season has left the snowpack well below average, the reservoirs dangerously low, and the cities, towns and agricultural communities jockeying for whatever water is left.

On assignment for The New Yorker, photographers Matt Black and Ed Kashi spent time with farmers and shepherds of the Central Valley, documenting their on-going struggles and the evident domino effect of severe water shortages. As Dana Goodyear writes in the magazine article, for the farmers of the Central Valley, “the country’s fruit basket, salad bowl, and dairy case,” the future seems especially bleak.

Senthil KUMARAN [ WORKSHOP ALUMNI ] - HUMAN VS TIGER CONFLICT - [ HOPE FRANÇOISE DEMULDER GRANT ] INDIA

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India is home to an estimated 2300 of the 3700 last surviving wild tigers on this planet. The country has 55 tiger sanctuaries but very often the animals have to share space with humans.

Tigers pose serious threat to the humans preying on them and their livestock. In response the local people are poisoning their livestock to kill the tigers.

In order to mitigate the human-tiger conflict the government has also strategized the approach of human relocation, which again has many practical hurdles.

Mansi THAPLIYAL [ WORKSHOP ALUMNI ] - WE SING ALONG - [ HOPE FRANÇOISE DEMULDER GRANT ] INDIA

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Mansi found a Karaoke Bar on the outskirts of Siem Reap where women are both entertainers and escorts. As different as their daily lives are from his, in their expressions of intimacy and loneliness, he felt that he recognized those parts of himself that he rarely brought to the surface. As he watched them with the men that came to them for comfort, Mansi was surprised at how their range of gestures – comfortable with one customer, irritable, but needy with the next, ambivalent and prop-like with the third – moved from desirable to dependent.

*** 11TH ANGKOR PHOTO WORKSHOPS Patrick de Noirmont & Suthep Kritsanavarin LINH PHAM, Vietnam - WATER, NOT YET TO COME Located within the floodplains of Tonle Sap, Kompong Phluk is a village of tall stilted houses surrounded by serene flooded mangrove forest. During the dry season, many of the villagers move out onto their temporary houses at the lake for fishing leaving their permanent houses soaring their 6-meter stilts exposed by the lack of water. This photo essay explores how the life is in the village of Kompong Phluk when the water is low and how villagers prepare for the next flooding season.

SUJATA KHANNA, India - PHARE “Phare” in French means ‘Lighthouse’ and that is what the circus in Siem Reap is – a lighthouse, a beacon - for the children and youth in the tourist hub of Cambodia. In a country where the arts industry was destroyed through years of upheaval, the circus transforms lives of youth from the community of Battambang and Siem Reap by providing job opportunities. These circus artists create social and historical awareness through their storytelling performances. This series celebrates the energy and emotions of these circus artists.

JUNHEE JANG, South Korea - A MAN WITH DIFFERENT FACES. Nith Bopha, a 27-year-old man. He lives near Siem Reap City. Nith is a famous Tuk-Tuk driver looking for clients on a tourism website.

He is also a guitar and computer teacher and a supporter of an NGO helping teenagers. During the six days I have spent with him, I could see him struggling with his personal life, being already engaged to a woman but still attracted to bars and nightlife. I have tried to show his hesitations and his anxiety to the future in a changing society. As time goes on and on, I’m getting confused about who he really is.From now on, I would like to follow the change in Nith Bopha’s life in his changing society. And this is a humble beginning of a long journey.

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LIPPANON PIPATANANTA, Thailand - THE MAGIC Among the Buddhism in Asian Culture ,there are beliefs about omen, demon and love magic. Cambodia is another country that those beliefs are deeply rooted in the culture despite the prosperity and modern days.

PATIPAT JANTHONG, Thailand - ANGKOR WAT IS EVERYTHING The use of the symbol of Angkor Wat everywhere and in everything is to use places and long history of the Khmer Empire 900 years ago. Currently, Angkor Wat symbol is used in commercial and linked with the way of life of Cambodian people.

TANAT CHAYAPHATTHARITTHEE, Thailand - ALCOHOL Cambodia is one of many countries in the South-East Asia where agriculture is a main occupation of the population. The rice can be processed to many products. One of them is a type of alcohol which is made with rice as the main ingredient. Most of the population in Cambodia likes to drink it, and you can see the boiling-alcohol process commonly in rural areas. The behavior of drinking alcohol infiltrates into the Cambodian culture and Cambodian daily life such as ordination, wedding, party etc. until there is a quote from this situation that “If you don’t drink to get drunk, then why bother drinking?” And, “If you are invited to a party and choose not to drink, then why did you bother coming?”.(credit: Indochina Research )The alcohol can be used for relax after working hard and help the man to sleepwell. Moreover, the alcohol can be compounded medicine with herbs for the women after childbirth. Alcohol can also mixed and pickled with fruits such as orange, mango, pineapple, sugar cane even with coffee bean for getting many good taste of alcohol. However, the alcohol will be useful when you drink it as necessary if not it might be the bad things in your hands.

PANDORA WONG, Singapore - THE HAND THAT FEEDS The hand that feeds is a story about Win Kurk, a 62 year old grandmother who starts her day at 7 am preparing bamboo rice sticks before leaving home at 2pm on a rusty bicycle peddling with at least 10kg worth of Bamboo Rice sticks for a distance of 30km everyday before returning home during the wee hours of 3am. Being the sole breadwinner of the family, Win Kurk seems unfazed by the circumstances that she has to deal with even as she struggles to make a living while supporting her grandchildren and alcoholic son.

ROSA PANGGABEAN, Indonesia - I WANT TO BE… Cambodian school children have dreams of a better life. I wanted to show some of them through this personal project in Siem Reap.

Poverty is the main cause for children to drop out of school. Some families cannot afford to even send their kids to school; some start but do not complete their schooling as they need to work early in their life. In this project, children draw what they want to be in their future, to raise the standard of their living and end poverty.

SAYON SOUN, Cambodia - LIVING WITH HERITAGE “Phkeak Long Handle knife was a weapon that has been used in the Angkor period (12th century). Only the great generals or kings would possess it. Today Cambodians, especially those in Siem Reap, treasure this legacy and inheritance from the great ancestors and are still using Phkeah in their daily life….. Cherishing the culture... Treasuring the heritage.

Ian Teh & Kosuke Okahara ARABELLA PANER, Philippines - HER SILVER HAIR, ALL HER LOVE There once was a woman who was twenty years far from her home and three hundred miles distant from her desires.

She passes time by uttering daytime and nighttime but she cannot recall the day she was born. She navigates through alleys and rivers to be able to hear the scraping sound of faded spoons. She is sheltered only by the love of her brother and no longer by the husband she once had. The real difficulties, her Silver hair in haywire forgets to remember.

So here is to that woman who once wrote at the back of a photograph “To You, with All My Love”.

PRIYANKA CHHARIA, India - IN OTHER’S ARMS Sin and Eurn met 10 years ago while training to be masseurs in Phnom Penh. While training together, they fell in love and decided to get married. Their son and daughter now live with Sin’s parents in Northwest Cambodia, three hours from Siem Reap. They hardly get to see their children once in six months, or sometimes once in a year for New Year’s.

In One’s Arms offers a brief window into their lives and their journey of togetherness. When I asked them what is love, pat they replied: “Sound is love, touch is love. When we held hands, we fell in love and agreed to spend our lives together.”

Both Sin and Eurn lost their sight at an early age.

YAN CONG, China - THEARA AND YEBIN: NEW LIFE Yebin came to Cambodia from China three years ago after studying Khmer in college. When he’s adapting to his new life in Cambodia, he met Theara (read as “Tera”). Now the young couple is living in Siem Reap expecting their first child. As many Chinese come to Cambodia for work or business, rarely do they mingle with the local people. Theara and Yebin are a special couple building their new life together with care and love.

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CHANDAN KHANNA, India - ROSHNI Kampong Phluk, a unique village in Northern Cambodia, is a beautiful village which floats on the Tonle Sap River. This experience was felt like I was giving 5 dollars every day to enter my own motherland. The populous had such despair in their eyes which shattered all realms. The town gets engulfed in the darkness of the night and there was no other source of ROSHNI (light), apart from a small battery powered head torch that I borrowed from a friend. This darkness was transforming for me, as it helped me get closer to the people of Kampong Phluk and establish an unsaid understanding, a mutual respect. These villagers live in extreme conditions yet are almost impervious to the outside world.

BEN LAKSANA, Indonesia - THINGS I DON’T KNOW ABOUT TOMORROW There’s a deluge of uncertainty that fills the mind when you are told that everything will be taken away from you. The roof over your head, the gym for your livelihood, a family who struggles to control their future. But yet it ends with Makara, the head of this growing family, whispering to my ears, “I might be poor in my pockets but I am not poor in my heart.” This is a story of a family whose house, livelihood and future has been put under the spotlight of uncertainty, as all they have may be taken away.

KENJI MERCADO, Philippines - FRAGILE MEMORIES Fragile Memories is a collection of visual translation of the memories about the Cambodian civil war that are recounted everyday by the tour guides in Siem Reap War Museum. Memories and stories that are either experienced first-hand during the war or passed on to them by their fathers.

It is a collection of fragility and strength that co-exist in the minds of these tour guides and all of the people that were affected by the war.

SUNYOUNG SHIN, South Korea - DINING DIVISION If someone who experienced division of Korea, this situation is considered impossible. However, it is happening in many Asia countries which are popular for South Korean tourist. Ironically, South and North Korean can meet at North Korean restaurant in foreign land. North Korea commercialize their distinct characteristics. And they give various performance for tourists. But there are nothing special except that people can meet each other. Sometimes South Korean tourist are moved by watching North Korean waitress. And some kind of weird emotions are mixed with sexuality. Suddenly it swallows all the tragic of division. Strange situations continue to happen at the restaurant all the time.

RAHUL SHAH, India - “DREAMS DISCARDED” – CAMBODIAN LANDMINE SURVIVORS. “I lost my hand and it broke my soul. I survive by fishing and some construction work, but it is hard life with four children. I feel hurt and sad sometimes. But its okay.”

Loy Lourn, a landmine survivor said to me.

There are more than 60,000 landmine and unexploded ordnance casualties from 1979 to the end of 2013 in Cambodia. My work is an attempt to document the survivors of landmines, their emotional & physical relationship with the world around them and with themselves.

SHAHRIA SHARMIN, Bangladesh - WE LIVE HERE Ton Le Sap is South East Asia’s largest freshwater lake, it provided the necessary conditions for the settlement of the mighty Angkorian kingdom. The lake’s most popular spot, Chong Kneas, is a floating village that today has become a tourist trap and is one of the most visited spots in South East Asia. The cost to enter the village is US$20 but its inhabitants have seen little benefit from this influx of cash paid to government officials. To me the village is nothing but a zoo where the locals are essentially a source of entertainment. At dusk, when the tourists and officials leave, the village returns to its old way of life till sunrise.

Antoine d’Agata & Sohrab Hura VONG SOPHEAK, Cambodia - BOUND In Khmer tradition a white thread has been always been used in weddings amongst many other ceremonies. In life husband and wife will face many of both good and bad things together. In this photo series I have used the white thread to bind them together showing the happiness and other problems they face as marriage.

CHRISTINE CHUNG, Philippines - WHAT ISN’T THERE For one man, there is a tragedy beyond a missing limb. He lives alone inside his home; a reflection of his inner disorder from the scattered wood and the animals that roam around. Although the photos may seem like abstractions, the light and shadows amplify the truth of what isn’t there.

ERIN NØIR, Philippines - PHANTASMAGORIA Phantasmagoria means a bizarre assemblage of strange, often shifting, scenes like that of a dream. In this work, I explored the streets of Siem Reap alone at night. In my journey, I encountered restless beings, nameless figures, and clueless paths. Amidst the darkness of unfamiliar spaces, I went through the thrills of getting lost and being found again – making nighttime my spiralling Universe.

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HOMAYRA ADIBA, Bangladesh - FIVE SECONDS OF RAIN When I went to this village, I never knew it could give me more than pretty landscapes until I met her. She was wearing a piece of cloth, a veil they say! And I could only notice that in the first place, but slowly..I could see she was aware of how this piece was turning into her skin, a skin she was comfortable with, a skin turning her into a shape where she was no more herself.

She spoke about her urges of finding herself somewhere within, not breaking the skin. Like she was keeping her sky as blue, making spaces for her clouds. Where you can sense the rain, and you wait…

GRACE BAEY, Singapore - THE SPACE BETWEEN US Having gone through a separation recently, I was drawn to the story of Mong and Ponleak. It is not uncommon for LGBT couples to face parental disapproval, even rejection, especially in Asia. Despite Ponleak’s family’s continued unacceptance of his relationship with Mong, a transgender woman, they’re trying hard to hold on to each other. Their love is one of distance mixed with desire, tenderness with tension, and passion compounded by the burden of parental pressure. Through Mong and Ponleak, I explore the force and fragility of relationships, even as they negotiate their space and identity as individuals and a couple.

KATIA REPINA, Russia - LABYRINTH The project takes place in one Karaoke bar located outside of Siem Reap. However, it is just a metaphor for the way I see relationships between men and women; relationships that are ephemeral and about particular moments that do not necessarily conform to the way society wants them to exist.

Labyrinth is about the connections and disconnections that we share with each other. It is about feeling alive. About being obsessed, excited, terrified, tired, lost, and about feeling lonely. It’s about desire, the need for affection, about moments of intimacy and of complete distance.

TRY SOPHAL, Cambodia - SAMBOUR THMEI Sambour Thmei is a village about half an hour away from Siem Reap town. All the people who live here had been dislocated from the area that used to be the riverside settlement in Siem Reap town. Most people who live here in the new rehabilitated village don’t want to stay because it is too far from town. People are losing business and the schools and markets are far away and even though the villagers have their new land they are not happy and continue to live here because there is no other choice.

In my work I am photographing the new architecture and the new way of life that is coming alive outside the rural part of Siem Reap.

AJI SUSANTO ANOM, Indonesia - INSIDE MY HEAD The surreal wilderness of the night has always fascinated me. The riverside I walked through completely transformed at night and I encountered characters and situations that would never occur in the day. The curiosity about what might happen really excited me.

The scary part ahowever, were the ghost like creatures I imagined wandering around in the shadows. Because of the fear, I could never bring myself to approach these mysterious beings partaking in unknown activities. Photography has given me the energy to enjoy the discomfort and experience this nocturnal wild side. While confronting the darkness outside, I also redeemed the darkness within.

SHIVA AKHLAGHI, Iran - I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR The first thing that comes to the mind when i think about a mirror is the reflection of our charactor ,ourlives,the environment around of us, our interior state of being and our feelings.we can also say that it is the reflection of others in the mirror of our mind.

JAISINGH NAGESWARAN, India - SKIN A community of homeless people live in a green space abandoned by the city.

It is a world that I don’t necessarily understand but one I felt most welcomed in. I couldn’t recognize the motifs, the rituals or the systems of hierarchy but it is here that I found some semblance of truth.

Could it be then, that the only way to tell the truth of someone’s life is by looking at their wounds and scars, the only important signifiers?

In the park, men sleep in fetal positions and neighbours are not separated by walls but by those who exist beside us.

Darkness is not a scary thing, as long as the light falls in the right places.

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