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Terra Femina Deep inside of me, I have always had this land, these places that make our path of life. This land, the land of the women, those who are the guardian of our humanity, those who are our past and our future, our roots and our dreams. Mother-Earth, fecund earth, fertile earth, the one that bears the world Flowers show up in my work to tell life from conception…

The Weight of light The Weight of Light project arose from my pressing need to shield myself from light, seen here as a metaphor for the high expectations I once placed on the land where I live (Salento, in southern Italy). Such expectations, often unmet, left me deeply disappointed, eventually driving me to leave my birthplace. I ended up moving to London for a while, and upon my return, I…

The finger A few photos that wouldn't have a voice without a finger! From the existential finger to the master finger, from the questioning finger to the sniffing finger, from the missing finger to the pointing finger, from the middle finger to the Barthian finger, here's a selection.

Dysturban ‘I don’t have any politics. I’m an observer.’ -Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness [01] Konmark’s photographs are shadowy and mercurial as one’s psyche. His black and white images portray a subdued urban environment, mainly faceless and sometimes threatening, where human figures appear to be consumable, albeit beautifully romantic in their decay. One detects the presence of an uncanny shadow, sometimes pitch black, and sometimes grainy… As Carl Gustav…

(Ni) queue ni tête In Hans Christian Andersen's story “The Emperor's New Clothes”, the emperor is naked. However, even naked, the emperor remains emperor. But what will he be if he also loses his face? In this series, the faces disappear, hidden by a mask, a cone or any other accessory. Do these characters look at the future, at the past, inside themselves? No one knows. Are they optimistic, resigned,…

The digital shadows of words My visit to the North Caucasus residence coincided with the start of work on the project of the Chechen poet Arbi Mamakayev. The first thing that was done was look up information about him online. The biography of Arbi tells the tale of a man who experienced a challenging period of transition. In the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, in the village of Nadterechnoye, he was born in…

Two Visits to Poland In this portfolio of 15 photographs, the first 7 are from a visit in 2013 to Augustów, a small town in the north east, quite close to the Lithuanian border. It is an inland resort, with leisure activities centred on the river Netta and lakes. The final 8 are from a visit to Gdansk in 2017. They were all taken on Ulica Dluga (Dluga Street/’The Royal…

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…