COVER PHOTO: FROM THE SERIES ‘ DWELT’ BY SOPHEAK VONG
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FOREWORD
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ANGKOR PHOTO WORKSHOPS
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FOREWORD Much has been said this year about the need for inclusion and diversity and the need for the photographic industry to examine the ethics behind the craft. These are all important issues, which will no doubt continue to gain traction in the new year. We at Angkor Photo, with our new Asian-led organising committee, welcome this momentum and intend full well to be a part of it. Over in our part of the world, there are many who hear these cries and recognise it all too well – after all, they have been advocating for the very same cause. Some, like Shahidul Alam, have been fighting for this for decades. In light of the unjust arrest of Shahidul Alam, as well as Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo in neighbouring Myanmar, along with many others all over the world, the need for community and solidarity remains more urgent than ever. We have to remind each other what really matters – genuine connections, honesty with the way we treat each other and ourselves, and courage to follow one’s own moral compass.
Jessica LIM joined the Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops in 2010 as a volunteer and became its coordinator for subsequent editions. She started as a writer and editorial photographer in her native Singapore before transitioning to serving as a photo and news editor for Drik (Dhaka, Bangladesh) and a photographer liaison for Majority World, an intiative advocating for equal opportunities for photographers in the majority world. She is currently also a managing partner of One Eleven Gallery in Siem Reap, Cambodia, a gallery showcasing contemporary visual art.
As we exist together in this digital era, with its opaque algorithms and filter bubbles feeding us a dystopic picture of our world, we cannot lose sight of one another. I am grateful for the incredible team that has propelled us to where we are today. Their clarity, tenacious committment and love for the Asian photographic community inspires me daily and reminds me that the better angels of our nature are hard at work. As we embark on the 14th Edition of an incredible event, I am moved to share the word of James Baldwin in his 1962 essay The Creative Process:
“The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.” Jessica LIM 7
PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS 14th ANGKOR PHOTO WORKSHOPS
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ANGKOR PHOTO WORKSHOPS The heart and soul of our event, the Angkor Photo Workshops is an annual free professional photography workshop which aims to provide an affordable, accessible and intensive educational experience to the region’s emerging talents.
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Created in 2005, the tuition-free Angkor Photo Workshops aim to elevate each participant’s photography by challenging their personal approach and understanding of the craft. Tutors seek to nurture each participant’s individual photographic vision and unique voice. Today, as the commercialisation of education is increasingly, becoming the dominant model, we believe it is important for us to remain an affordable option for those seeking access to professional education and development. Each year, 30 emerging photographers from Asia are selected from our open call for applications. Under the tutelage of seven international photographers, participants conceptualizes, photographs, and edits a complete photo story during the workshops. The results are showcased as the key programme of the festival’s Closing Night. With a network of over 330 workshop alumni all over Asia today, the Angkor Photo Workshops have also played a critical role in developing Asia’s photographic community.
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NO. OF PARTICIPANTS: 30 photographers NATIONALITIES: 12 countries (Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Myamar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam) TUTORS: 7 tutors RESULTS: Presented on the Closing Night of the festival (Dec 18th, 2018) 9
ANGKOR PHOTO WORKSHOPS: TUTORS
ANTOINE D’AGATA
/ MAGNUM PHOTOS FRANCE www.magnumphotos.com/antoinedagata
Since we began, all our workshop tutors join us as volunteers - helping us to remain noncommercial and free for all participants. Our tutors for 2018 are awardwinning professionals who represent a range of nationalities, backgrounds, and photographic styles, mirroring our beliefs in the importance of diversity and inclusivity.
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The tutors of the Angkor Photo Workshops share our core values and belief in the need to provide professional guidance and mentorship to Asia’s emerging photographers.
TANIA BOHORQUEZ MEXICO
SOHRAB HURA
/ MAGNUM PHOTOS INDIA www.sohrabhura.com
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Born in Marseille, ANTOINE D’AGATA found himself in New York in 1990, pursuing an interest in photography by taking courses at the International Center of Photography, wheAntoine d’Agata gave up his studies when he was 17 in order to live the nightlife of a dozen or so countries. This period lasted 12 years. While staying in New York in 1991 he enrolled in the International Center of Photography, where he attended courses taught by Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. His first works, De Mala Muerte and Mala Noche, appeared in 1998. The following year, the Galerie VU started to represent his work. In 2001 he was awarded the Niépce Prize for Home Town. In September 2003 the exhibition 1001 Nuits opened in Paris, feaTorinog two of d’Agata’s works: Vortex and Insomnia. In 2004, he joined the Magnum agency, published his fifth book, Stigma, and shot his first short film, El Cielo del Muerto. The next year saw the publication of Manifeste. In 2006, the photographer shot his feature film, Aka Ana, in Tokyo. His book Agonie was published in 2009 and since that year d’Agata has also been represented by the Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire. Since 2005, Antoine d’Agata has worked on publications and exhibitions with the Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalons-sur-Saône, in 2011; the Fotomuseum, The Hague, in 2012; Le Bal, Paris, in 2013; the MuCEM, Marseille, in 2013; and the Forma, Milano, in 2013. In 2013, he won the Book prize at the Rencontres d’Arles for Anticorps and his third film, Atlas, was released.
TANIA BOHORQUEZ is a visual artist, active in photography, video and performance, working in two lines: self-referential and
documentary, focus in the human fragility in the interpersonal relationships and structures collectives (family and vulnerable groups). The topics in her projects are the violence, sexual abuse and incest. Her background is in Political Sciences. She studied in the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center and Centro de la Imagen in México, and she completed a Master’s degree in Critic of Contemporary Art and Production of Visual Arts. She is a tutor for the Clinics for Specialization in Contemporary Art in Oaxaca and was tutor of the Program to Encourage Artistic Creation and Development (Award for artists granted by The Council of Arts of México). Part of her creative process is involved practice of communitary pedagogy avoiding the vertical structure of power. She currently resides and works in France and in the south of México.).
SOHRAB HURA was born on 17th October 1981 in a small town called Chinsurah in West Bengal, India and he grew up changing his ambitions from one exciting thing to another. Sohrab Hura started with dreams of growing up and becoming a dog, which later turned to becoming a superhero and then to a veterinarian to a herpetologist to becoming a wildlife filmmaker. Today he is a photographer, after having completed his master’s in economics. In 2014, he was named an associate of Magnum Photos in 2018.
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KATRIN KOENNING GERMAN katrinkoenning.com
KOSUKE OKAHARA JAPAN kosukeokahara.com
KATRIN KOENNING moved to Australia where she studied photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. She
has a particular interest in our physical and emotional connection to place, and to that which surrounds us. Her works are regularly exhibited in Australian and international solo and group exhibitions. Her images have been published widely in distinguished magazines such The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel Magazine and others. In 2017, her first book Astres Noirs (Chose Commune) won the Australian Photobook of the Year Award. Koenning is represented by East Wing Gallery, Dubai.
KOSUKE OKAHARA was born in 1980 and grew up in Tokyo and started his career as a photographer after college graduation
where he studied education. He has been pursuing the stories based on his theme “Ibasyo” which, in Japanese, refers to physical and emotional space in which one can exist. Okahara has been honored with several awards and grants including W.Eugene Smith Fellowship, Joop Swart Masterclass of World Press Photo, Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Award, PDN’s 30 emerging photographers to watch, Sony World Photography Awards, Prix Kodak and so on. Okahara’s photos have also been exhibited in various venues including museums, galleries and international photo festivals. He continues shooting the stories that touch him.
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IAN TEH
/ PANOS PICTURES MALAYSIA/UK www.ianteh.com
VEEJAY VILLAFRANCA PHILIPPINES www.veejayvillafranca.com
IAN TEH is mainly focused on environmental, social and political issues. Teh explores society’s history and transformation through
human action and impact. Teh has published three monographs, Undercurrents (2008), Traces (2011) and Confluence (2014). His work is part of the permanent collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) and the Hood Museum in the USA. Teh has received several honours, in 2018 he was awarded a travel grant from the Pulitzer Centre for Crisis Reporting and presented his work on climate change at the prestigious 2018 National Geographic Photography Seminar. He is also the recipient of the International Photoreporter Grant 2016 the Abigail Cohen Fellowship in Documentary Photography 2014 and the Emergency Fund 2011 from the Magnum Foundation. In 2015, during the COP21 Paris climate talks, large poster images of his work were displayed on the streets of Paris as a collaborative initiative by #Dysturb and Magnum Foundation. Teh is a member of the British agency, Panos Pictures.
VEEJAY VILLAFRANCA was born in Manila. He started out in journalism as a staff photographer for the national news magazine
covering socio-political events in the Philippines. After becoming a freelancer in 2006, he worked with several international news wire agencies before pursuing the personal projects that later paved the way to his career as a full-time documentary photographer. In 2008, he was awarded the Ian Parry Scholarship and a residency at Visa Pour l’Image for his project on the lives of former gang members in Manila and in 2013 attended the prestigious Joop Swart Masterclass program of the World Press Photo Foundation. He is also an alumni of the Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops. Veejay is based in Manila and works around the Asian region contributing to international publications and working on stories about Filipino cultural and religious practices, the transformation of Filipino gang members, and climate displacement and other environmental issues around the Asian region.
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ANGKOR PHOTO WORKSHOPS: PARTICIPANTS All participants are selected personally by the tutors of the Angkor Photo Workshops based on the merit of their submitted portfolio and written personal statement. This year we are very proud to welcome our 14th batch of our workshop participants, who will soon join the ever-growing community of Angkor Workshop alumni.
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FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 14th ANGKOR PHOTO FESTIVAL
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ANGKOR PHOTO FESTIVAL For the past 13 years, our festival has been a meeting point in Asia for a broad community of photographers and media professionals from the region and beyond. Our festival’s programme of exhibitions and projection evenings aim to introduce a range of contemporary practitioners with different approaches to the craft, creating room for discussion and dialogue amongst students and visiting professionals. It also includes activities aimed at professional development such as artist talks, discussion sessions and free portfolio reviews. Reflecting the organisation’s changes, our programme for 2018 will reflect our focus on promoting Asian perspectives on photography through our selection of invited guest curators and featured work. All our festival events are free and open to the public, with no professional accreditation required. Over the years, we have cultivated an open spirit to our events to facilitate and enable organic and genuine interactions and collaborations amongst the community.
ANGKOR PHOTO COMMITTEE
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Antoine D’Agata, France - Françoise Callier, Belgium - Andrea Fernandes, India Sohrab Hura, India - Hak Kim, Cambodia - Kosuke Okahara, Japan - Jean-Yves Navel, France - Sophal Neak, Cambodia - Ian Teh, Malaysia/UK - Sim Chi Yin, Singapore Roun Ry, Cambodia - Sayon Soun, Cambodia - Dennese Victoria, Philippines
PROGRAMME COORDINATOR: Jessica Lim 2018 GUEST CURATOR: Wang Xi 2018 CURATORS: Françoise Callier, Sophal Neak & Kim Hak PHOTOGRAPHERS: Over 100 photographers from more than 40 countries EXHIBITIONS: 5 exhibitions SCREENINGS: 5 evenings of projection ACTIVITIES: Daily Portfolio Reviews & Afternoon Sessions 19
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FRANÇOISE CALLIER Well-known face of the Festival Françoise Callier is part of the committee and Anjali Photo Workshops coordinator. Through this evening her intention is to share an approach of photography which she hopes will inspire the new generation of photographers the same way it inspired her. She presents the work of 21 photographers in a showcase Part I ‘Tribute to JB Pictures’ - Part II ‘Growing With Photography’ (Dec 14th).
2018 GUEST CURATORS SOPHAL NEAK & KIM HAK Alumni of the Angkor Photo Workshops and members of our new organising committee, the conceptual photographer Sophal Neak and the visual storyteller Kim Hak present the work of 16 photographers in the ‘Revival’’ Showcase, a selection of some of the most significant contemporary Khmer photography (Dec 17th).
2018 GUEST CURATOR WANG XI Our invited 2018 Guest Curator Wang Xi is a curator and academic based in China and currently holds the position of Academic Director of Xie Zilong Photography Museum. He presents the work of 12 Chinese photographers in who are selected specifically because of their long-term projects, good content and unique style (Dec 15th).
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DALIT: A QUEST FOR DIGNITY First shown in Photo Kathmandu in Nepal, this exhibition delves into the struggle for dignity which fundamentally shapes the Dalit experience in Nepal. The caste system in Nepal worked by not only maintaining material inequality between the upper castes and lower castes but also by ritualizing honor and humiliation as everyday practice. The legacy of this brutality against dalits in Nepali social life can, even today, debilitate the official commands of law and the state to end caste discrimination. Against this history, Dalits in Nepal struggle to break the identity of untouchability that the hegemony of upper castes thrusts on them.
© Tuomo Manninen, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1995 Nepal Picture Library (NPL) is a digital photo archive run by photo.circle that strives to create a broad and inclusive visual archive of Nepali social and cultural history. Since its inception in 2011, NPL has collected over 70,000 photographs from various private and organizational sources across Nepal. The archive serves as a safe and open repository for materials that can secure a multicultural and pluralist representation of Nepali history. It also functions as a medium for active public engagement through which Nepali people can deepen meaningful connections with the past. As part of its objective to create a visually dense version of Nepali history for and with public audiences, NPL has created a network of professionals with interest or specialized knowledge in museum design, preservation, curation, exhibition, graphic design, oral history, writing, education, ethnography, visual culture, media, art history, photography, and publishing. 22
The struggle for dignity fundamentally shapes the Dalit experience in Nepal. The Dalit identity stands for the values of equality, respect, and social justice. Since the start of the democratic movement in Nepal, Dalit activists have worked to create a space from which the exclusion of Dalits from public life can be challenged. This exhibition is showing historical and contemporary photographs bears testimony to the history of social, economic, political and intellectual disadvantage that Dalits are up against. But it also shows how Dalits make resource of their own cultural pasts for a new and respectable identity. The book “Dalit: A Quest For Dignity” was launched in November 2018 and is now available for sale. To get your own copy, contact mail@nepalpicturelibrary.org
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THE GOLDEN CITY OF BOTEN “China is famous for exporting its mass-produced goods around the world for global consumption. Less well known are its attempts to export its human population, as it forges new economic links and opportunities around the world. Across China’s southern border with Laos and Myanmar lie six settlements built by Chinese developers, which operate businesses owned and run by the Chinese. Boten, a town located in northern Laos, is one of them. © ORE Huiying ORE Huiying is a documentary photographer, her practice revolves around storytelling. Ore was named one of the 10 Platform Emerging Photographers in Singapore 2010. Last year, she was nominated for the Sagamihara Photo City’s Asia Prize (Japan) and received a Select Award in the Kuala Lumpur International Photo Award. In 2010, she moved to United Kingdom and completed her Masters of Arts in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication. She returned to Singapore in 2013, as her photography is focused on investigating the progression of Southeast Asian societies in the global context.
Under the special economic zone plan, in 2003 Laos signed a 30-year lease on 4,000 acres of forest to a Chinese development company. The Chinese investors started building a “Golden City” centered on a casino-hotel. Touted as a futuristic hub for trade and tourism, the Golden City ran on Beijing time and made transactions in Chinese yuan, populated by mainly Chinese migrants. There are more than 20000 land concession projects like this one in Laos, one of the poorest countries in the world. Abundant with natural resources, Laos welcome these offers of investment with the promise of foreign technologies, capital and infrastructure development. Yet less than three years after it opened, the casino was forced to close due to speculation over criminal activity. Without gambling tourism, other businesses could not survive. Most of the Chinese left, only a handful remain and harbour hope that a change will come and the city will be revived. After years of waiting, their wish might come true. With a change in lease ownership and commencement of China-Laos highspeed railway construction, Boten is experiencing a slow revival. It is the last stop along the China-Laos railway before it enters into Mengla, China.”
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SHANA & ROBERT PARKEHARRISON USA
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Visitation © Shana & Robert PARKEHARRISON
“Our imagery appears timeless, otherworldly and surreal. Employing a poetic visual language, we layer our work with multi-meanings and interpretations. This work continues our twenty-year investigation of the triangular interaction of nature, technology and human existence. As collaborative artists we work within the tradition of tableau photography. We transform our prints using hands-on painterly techniques, thus freeing our photographs from traditional conventions of photography.” Since the mid 1990’s, Shana & Robert PARKEHARRISON have worked as collaborative artists to create elaborately staged photographic and sculptural works of art. Their work explores the complex relationship linking humans, nature and technology, Throughout each body of work they create, this triangular narrative ebbs and flows and is used as a way to explore their thoughts and feelings about how we - as humans - relate to nature, the earth and technology. From 1993-2003 they developed an extensive body of work entitled The Architect’s Brother. We consider this work layered with meaning: open-ended visual narratives, metaphoric and evoking issues of the earth and mankind’s responsibility to heal it. We created each image using a 19th century process known as paper negatives. Working exclusively in analog photography rather than digital we infused drawing and collage into this paper negative process. This manipulative process offered us the ability to transform realistic photographic images into surreal images. This body of work conveys our affinity for photographic history.
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SOPHEAP CHOUN for META HOUSE CAMBODIA
LESSONS FROM THE PAST II WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE?
© Sopheap CHOUN “Why did the Khmer Rouge kill their own people?” - Rin Sarun, 18 years old
CHOUN Sopheap is born in Takeo in December 1991. Graduated at the Cambodian University of Specialties in English Literature, has exhibited his work “New Phnom Penh” in 2015, “Black Sorrow” in 2016 and “Karl Marx’s 200th birthday” and “Un/Cover” in 2018 at Meta House. He has also published “Grief, Pain, and Sorrow” in 2012, “History of the Knights Templar” in 2015, “Witchcraft” in 2017 and “The Sober Loris” theatre play in 2017. At the present he works as Cultural Manager and Facilitator at KDKG/Meta House in Phnom Penh.
For over a quarter of a century, Cambodians have waited for justice. The Khmer Rouge Tribunal at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) aims to provide justice for those who died and those who survived. But the trials are also for the new generation - to educate Cambodia’s youth about the darkest chapter in Cambodian history. Since 2015, Phnom Penh-based arts center Meta House and its umbrella organization the Cambodian-German Cultural Association (KDKG) have conducted the community theatre project “The Courageous Turtle” with the Ministry of Youth, Education and Sport (MoEYS). For the first time, theatre is being used as an educational tool in Cambodian classrooms to enhance students’ knowledge of the Pol Pot era.
This year, Meta House continues this project with Cambodian students, who tell us what they want to know from the elders about the ugly Pol Pot years. Following the successful concept of “Lessons from the Past”, the photo series “WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE?” by Cambodian photographer Choun Sopheap portraits Cambodian teenagers and twens holding placards with their questions written on it. “The Courageous Turtle” project is made possible through funding from the European Union. The project has been proposed to the Khmer Rouge Trial as a Judicial Reparation project and is currently listed under the ‘’Guarantee of Non-repetition’’ proposed list, in co-operation with the Victims Support Section and the Civil Party Lead Co-Lawyers of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.
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© Sopheap CHOUN “What did Civil Parties experience under Pol Pot?” - Heng Sokleap, 18 years old
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61ST WORLD PRESS PHOTO CONTEST For the second time, the award-winning images of the annual World Press Photo Contest will be on show in Cambodia as part of the 14th Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops.
WORLD PRESS PHOTO: THE WORLD’S LEADING CONTEST FOR VISUAL JOURNALISM One of the world’s most prestigious contests of photojournalism, the World Press Photo Contest awards photographers for the best images contributing to the past year of visual journalism. This annual international event is the unmissable contest for professional press photographers, photojournalists and documentary photographers. Since 1955, the World Press Photo Foundation has played a major role in visual storytellings, giving visibility and support to photographers working on social, environmental and political contemporary issues. This year’s contest attracted 4,548 entries from photographs from 125 countries with a total of 73,044 images submitted. The jury gave prizes in eight categories to 42 photographers. The jury of the 61st annual Photo Contest selected an image taken on May 3rd, 2017, during the Venezuela crisis, by Venezuelan photographer Ronaldo Schemidt as the World Press Photo of the Year.
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In today’s world where journalism and journalists are more and more put under pressure, control and limitations, the mission of the World Press Photo Foundation is more important than ever. By promoting visual journalism World Press Photo aims to show to people their world in a freely factual and critical way. Freedom of information, freedom of inquiry and freedom of speech are essential for keeping an open mind, and quality visual journalism is there for the accurate and independent reporting that makes these freedoms possible.
MIRAGE CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE 14 DECEMBER 2018 - 7 JANUARY 2019
World Press Photo of the Year Ronaldo Schemidt, Venezuela, Agence France-Presse VENEZUELA CRISIS, MAY 3, 2017
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FESTIVAL PROGRAMME: MOBILE TUK-TUK EXHIBITION
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DANCING IN SITE II (1985): LIFE & ART IN CAMBODIAN REFUGEE CAMP AFTER WAR © Sharon MAY Sharon MAY went to photograph Cambodian refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian border for three weeks in 1985 and ended up staying for nearly two years. She taught music and worked as a researcher and photographer for Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights. She co-edited the book In the Shadow of Angkor: Contemporary Writing from Cambodia. Her stories and photographs have appeared in the Bangkok Post, Kyoto Journal, Chicago Tribune, Best New American Voices, Mānoa, and other international publications. She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. A collection of these images is on permanent exhibit at the Cambodia Peace Gallery in Battambang. These photographs are from the book Dancing in Site II: Life and Art in Cambodian Refugee Camps after the War.
These rare images of Evacuation Site II and other camps on the Thai-Cambodian border were taken in 1985 and 1986. Coming to light more than 30 years later, these photographs offer an intimate glimpse of people rebuilding their lives and culture in refugee camps after the tragic losses of the war. Only about 10 percent of Cambodia’s artists—dancers, musicians, writers—survived the Khmer Rouge regime. The few surviving masters in the border camps sought to pass on a vanishing repertoire, in some cases breaking tradition in order to carry on tradition—for example, by teaching girls to play musical instruments. These images reveal the resilience and resourcefulness of the Cambodian people. Here are individuals at work, at play, making music, learning to dance, and finding ways to survive and revive the arts after unspeakable sorrow. A collection of these photographs is on permanent exhibit at the Cambodia Peace Gallery in Battambang, Cambodia. The selection of images in this book is taken from a larger forthcoming volume. This unique touring exhibition is mounted on five tuk-tuks that travel to various locations within Siem Reap town and outlying villages with the aim of bringing photography to a wider community of Cambodians.
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PART I “TRIBUTE TO JB PICTURES” PART II “GROWING WITH PHOTOGRAPHY” BY FRANÇOISE CALLIER Françoise Callier showcases a very personal selection of photographers. Her intention is to share an approach of photography which she hopes will inspire the new generation of photographers the same way it inspired her. The first part is a tribute to the work of Jocelyne Benzakin through the photographers of JB Pictures agency. The second part will show the work of photographers from all over the world.
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ANJALI PHOTO WORKSHOPS COORDINATOR FRANÇOISE CALLIER has made it her life mission to promote and highlight photographic talent. Previously, she worked for 15 years at 2e Bureau as a photographers’ agent, working alongside Helmut Newton, Jean-Paul Goude, Max Vadukul and many others. Together with Sylvie Grumbach, she handled the press promotion of Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan, France, and was also the French correspondent for Corbis agency from 1995 to 1998.
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PROJECTIONS: GUEST CURATORS Every year, we invite two guest curators to present a showcase of work as part of our evening projections programme. For our 14th Edition, we turn our focus to the perspectives of curators from Asia, with a showcase by one of China’s fast-rising curatorial talents and two well-established photographers from Cambodia’s contemporary visual arts scene, who are also alumni and members of our organising committee.
“CONTEMPORARY CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHY” BY WANG XI Wang Xi will present a range of contemporary work from 12 Chinese photographers who are selected specifically because of their long-term projects, good content and unique style. The projects will span different genres, from fine art photography to documentary photography.
WA N G X I ACADEMIC DIRECTOR, XIE ZILONG PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM
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WANG XI is a curator and academic based in China and currently holds the position of Academic Director of Xie Zilong Photography Museum. Wang has previously curated 3 editions of Dali Photo Biennial, alongside curatorial roles for PIP Photo Festival, Angkor Photo Festival, Orange Photo Festival, and Singapore International Photography Festival amongst others. He is also on the advisory panel for Dali Photography Museum, Ningbo Ala Photo Festival and Ningbo Liyuan Photography Museum. Wang has also served as a columnist for Southern Metropolitan Post, Shanghai Oriental Morning News, Digital Camera, Mijing Photo Magazine and Private History Magazine. Wang is a scholar and collector of Photography History in China from the periods 1860-1900s.
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“ R E V I VA L” BY SOPHAL NEAK & KIM HAK “The end of Vietnam war in the 70s, war had been extended on Cambodian land with the drop of B52 booms by American Air Force, the unrest situation in the country during Lon Nol in 1970 to 1975 and the country had been under control of Khmer Rouge regime in 1975 to 1979. We have seen a lot of photographs which covered the unrest situation and darkness history of Cambodia history by foreigners. I have been always questioned: “Were there Cambodian photographers to cover the news?” And who are they? Some of them still survived? This is still on our research … I was born after the fall of Khmer Rouge regime in the period of lost, revival, and rebuilt. Here, Neak Sophal and myself, we prefer not to call it a curation, but the appreciation of looking at Cambodian photographers in the last four decades who have been using photography as form/ voice to express point of views to talk about different issues in this society. Some works are completed, some works are on-going, and some works are experimental.” KIM Hak, 2018
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SOPHA L N EA K & KIM H A K Alumni of the Angkor Photo Workshops and members of our new organising committee, the conceptual photographer Sophal Neak and the visual storyteller Kim Hak present the work of 16 photographers in the ‘Revival’’ showcase, a selection of some of the most significant contemporary Khmer photography. 41
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PROJECTIONS: CHILDREN’S DAY CHILDREN’S DAY! The children’s photographs are showcased at ‘Children’s Day’, a special event aimed at bringing the children and families of Anjali House together with the festival community to have fun, enjoy photography, and to be proud of their creative achievements, completed during the Anjali Photo Workshops. CHILDREN’S DAY SPONSORED BY © RONALD PATRICK
This projection will start with the screening of a special “Kids’ Edition” showcase curated by Françoise Callier. Dave ENGLEDOW World’s Best Father USA Bruno MAZODIER Football Dreams FRANCE Sacha GOLDBERGER Mamika Little big grand mother FRANCE YANG Yankang / Agence VU Buddhism in Tibet CHINA 44
ANJALI PHOTO WORKSHOPS CREATIVE EXPRESSION FOR ANJALI HOUSE KIDS
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ANJALI PHOTO WORKSHOPS Our annual Anjali Photo Workshop was created as an avenue to stimulate growth and creativity in poor Cambodian children through creative expression. Using photography as a means to have fun while telling their own stories, the workshops encourage self-esteem and self-discovery – a key tool in fostering scholastic development, self-confidence, and social interaction. Initiated in 2005 by Magnum Photos photographer Antoine D’Agata, this 10-day workshop is guided by professional photographers. Each year 50 children are given digital cameras for 10 days during which they photograph the city during the day and return home with their cameras - photographing daily life, family and friends, their homes and the environment. Our volunteer professional photography tutors guide the students’ creativity and vision and help them share their world through powerful images. Their images reveal a daily life rooted in a raw and authentic reality. In our 14 year long archive of the childrens’ photographs, there are no clichés, just truth and individuality.
ANJALI TUTORS We work with Anjali House, an independent NGO founded by the Angkor Photo Association in 2005. Today, it provides food, shelter and education to over 110 underprivileged children in Siem Reap. www.anjali-house.com
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PA R TN E RS & SP O N S O RS
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We are grateful for the generosity of our partners and sponsors who have come forward in support. Thank you for playing a vital role in bringing to life the 14th Edition of Southeast Asia’s longest-runinng international photography event.
CULTURAL PARTNERS
ANJALI PHOTO WORKSHOPS KEY SPONSOR
COMMUNITY PARTNER
ANGKOR PHOTO WORKSHOPS KEY SPONSOR
CHILDREN’S DAY SPONSOR
EXHIBITION PARTNERS
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ANJALI PHOTO WORKSHOPS CAMERA PARTNER
PREFERRED ACCOMODATION PARTNER
VENUE PARTNERS
PROJECTOR SPONSOR
EVENT PARTNERS Siem Reap សមគម សម�័ន�ភាពបរ ំង េខត�េសៀមរប
MEDIA PARTNERS
WINE PARTNER
TRANSLATION PARTNER
ACCOMODATION PARTNERS
FOOD PARTNER
SUPPORTER
PRINT LAB PARTNER
TECHNICAL PARTNER
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THANK YOU
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DONORS Lizzie van Nieuwenhuyse Li Li Chung Donald Cooney & Alexandra Rosen “Un Déclic contre une Claque”
2018 ORGANISING COMMIT TEE Jessica Lim > FESTIVAL DIRECTOR Françoise Callier > ANJALI PHOTO COORDINATOR Claire Taddei > GENERAL COORDINATOR Marco Spinoni > EXHIBITION COORDINATOR Florence Croizier > ASSISTANT COORDINATOR / COMMUNITY MANAGER Hervé Janody > MULTIMEDIA PRODUCER Sylvie Grumbach - 2eBureau > PRESS RELATIONS COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Andrea Fernandes Sohrab Hura Kim Hak Kosuke Okahara Jean-Yves Navel Sophal Neak
Ian Teh Sim Chi Yin Roun Ry Sayon Soun Dennese Victoria Antoine D’Agata
2018 TEAM Mansi Pal Lim Ming Rui Sam Walker Fruzsina Jelen Tabibito Yoshi Swastik Pal Guillaume Lacourt Kak Sokphirom
Mr Bee Josimar Bholai Kenji Mercado Ke Simon Benjamin Carrichon Marianne Landmann Marion Pili Bernard Cohen
Huge thanks and gratitude to everyone who came forward as portfolio reviewers and presenters of our Afternoon Sessions.
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