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In 2008, the Photo Phnom Penh festival was born on the initiative of Alain Arnaudet who was then the director of the French Cultural Center, now the French Institute of Cambodia (IFC). He had already launched a dance festival, a street music festival, and theater activities, when he met two young people who wanted to exhibit their photographs before the creation of the gallery, library and restaurant. Concerned by the…

Chiron Duong (Durong Quang Dat) Vietnam. Born 1996 To paint a portrait of Vietnamese youth today, Chiron Duong proceeded in a systematic and highly organized manner. He asked each of his models, all different, to come to his studio with two types of clothing, those they usually wear on a daily basis to go for a coffee or meet friends and those they reserve for more important, more formal events,…

Mech Sereyrath - When the sun reaches the river To produce more, to consume more, we always need more energy. This has long been one of the problems that has slowed down Cambodia's economic development and this is why the decision was taken to build the large Lower Se San II dam in Stung Treng province on the river that is an important tributary of the Tonle Sap, and therefore…

Ly Sovanna : Ranoch Visited Angkor Photography can sometimes allow us to visualize dreams and facts that never existed. This is what Ly Sovanna asked for his series, the very first of his photographic proposals and which he called Ranoch Visited Angkor. “Ranoch” refers to a period when the moonlight becomes increasingly weak at night and Ly Sovanna, born in 1979 in Kampong Cham province and raised in Kampong Thom…

 To celebrate the 15th edition of Photo Phnom Penh we simply asked some of the photographers who had previously exhibited at the festival to send us a previously unpublished photograph or one never exhibited in Cambodia before. There are therefore 60 of them, coming from Europe and Asia, with the exception of two who, of American nationality, are either based in Europe or are largely developing their activity there. In…

Created in the fall of 2023, the Vernacular Social Club is an association for the promotion and distribution of vernacular documents. Its objective: to make undocumented photographic archives visible and to bring them to life in France and internationally. For the Club's first exhibition in France, La Chambre explores with three founding members of the association the broad theme of family photography. Affaire de famille – Family Affair offers a…

An exhibition of documentary and studio photography by Bronx-based artist Samantha Box (b. 1977) is on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) from November 20, 2024, through March 23, 2025. Box is known for her arresting and nuanced work that shares stories of lives shaped by the intersections of nationality, race, class, gender and sexual orientation. Samantha Box: Confluences presents a survey of photographs from…

In her new book published by The Images Publishing Group, Anouk Krantz presents her most expansive work to date. Frontier: Cowboys of the Americas is the culmination of years of work and literally hundreds of journeys to ranches, rodeos, and the landscapes of the American continents. This collection is a magnificent tribute to a way of life and of living, to the cowboys and their communities, and, ultimately, to the…

The Galerie Regard Sud in Lyon presents an exhibition by Rima Samman entitled: L'amour se porte autour du cou. Here is the presentation by the photographer: L’amour se porte autour du cou is a series taken from the family album of my parents, my uncles, aunts, cousins. An ordinary modern-day family, scattered across the four corners of the world, due to the various wars marking the history of Lebanon, my…

Since October 25, 2024 and for almost a year, liners will be in the spotlight at the Musée d’arts de Nantes then at the MuMa in Le Havre with the exhibition Paquebots 1913-1942. Une esthétique transatlantique which features photographs by Roger Schall. To understand the photographs of photo reporters of the past, even if they were partly our contemporaries, it is important to situate the context of their time and…

Antoine Martin sends us his portfolio Miami, not the Beach accompanied by this text. Allapattah is a working-class neighborhood in Miami, predominantly Cuban and Latino, wedged between the very touristy Wynwood district and the airport. Although belonging to the same county, Miami and Miami Beach are in fact two very distinct cities, with two mayors and two histories. The first officially became a municipality in the 1890s and the other…

Release of volume 6 of the Atlas des régions naturelles by Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier. We have chosen to show you part of the ‘Cinemas’ section. Somewhere between an alternative guide and a formal invention, the Atlas des Régions Naturelles is a photographic archive of French territory from the unexpected angle of natural regions. This hybrid geography plays with administrative boundaries; it carries an emotional charge whose visible expression…

Jean-Christian Bourcart is exhibiting Carnets new-yorkais at the gallery Les Filles du Calvaire until November 30th, an eponymous book is published by Atelier EXB. On November 15th, the opening of the exhibition «La vie est un rêve et les images en sont la preuve» took place at the Nicéphore Niépce museum in Chalon sur Saône. In 2020, the photographer bequeathed his archives to the Nicéphore-Niépce museum. Among this collection, 48…

Launch of the call for applications for the 5th edition of the Prix Photo Sociale. The jury this year will be chaired by Jane Evelyn Atwood. The winners and finalists will benefit from support for a total value of more than €10,000, through an endowment of €3,000 for the winner and €300 for each of the finalists as well as the production of an exhibition of the winners' series and…

Galerie Bene Taschen presents HIP HOP – Living a Dream, an immersive exhibition showcasing the works of renowned photographers Jamel Shabazz (*1960), Joseph Rodriguez (*1951), and Gregory Bojorquez (*1972). From the early 1980s on, each of these three American chroniclers provides distinct insights into the rise and global impact of American HIP HOP culture. HIP HOP delves into the lifestyle that, in combination with music, graffiti, breakdancing, and fashion, evolved…