French photographer Agnes Dherbeys has lived in Bangkok for 12 years and now she has decided to come back to Paris, but it was in Thailand where she’s started her career documenting many stories: Tsunami aftermath in 2004, the Red Shirts protests in 2010 (a work awarded with the Robert Capa Gold Medal for “best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise”) and other stories that Agnes did travelling from her base in Bangkok, like powerful reportages of Nepal and East Timor.
Now Agnes left Bangkok ans she’s started to work more on her new personal projects about an intimate Paris and another one about her origins, the beautiful ongoing work named “Seoul, could be mine”.
She’s also found other experience in phototography that brought Agnes back to Thailand: “Siam Roads”, an on the road photographic documentary with the French band Limousine and Thai artist Yodh Warong (great music, waiting for the album release).
“In January 2013, she followed closely the Limousine guys in the heart of Isaan (North East Thailand), their encounters with the local people, their musical exchanges particularly with Yodh Warong, famous Molaam artist.
Her pictures not only tell the story of an artistic exchange between talented musicians from very different horizons, but also captures, in the most sensitive way, the local people, their land, and the beating heart of Molaam music. As an echo to her past photographic studies, this selection of pictures shows an unexpected vision of the Isaan land. Far from any cliché, Agnès Dherbeys excelled at putting into light the complex nature of the Isaan inhabitants. At the crossroads between Laos and Cambodia, these warm hearted and optimistic people incarnate the depth and blissful melancholy of Molaam music. “
Eliseo Barbàra
MoST Artists
SIAM ROADS
Photography by Agnes Dherbeys
May 27 – June 30, 2013
Chez Pépin
Suan Phlu Soi 1, Sathorn
Bangkok
Thailand
