Our world is like a screen in a supermarket.screens are everywhere, in all sizes and capable of any function. And from their tender years, many have been in contact with them. Even those from families who don’t have a television or cell phone. By focusing on a small video parlor popular with children and teenagers—just like so many others—the photographer did not attempt the anecdotal but found an original way of making the portrait of a generation. Turning his back to the screen so fascinating for them and in front of which they can go on playing for hours, crammed tightly between the red boundaries that separate the play stations, they look at the lens, seriously, and seem to be addicted to all that surrounds them. The photographer and the onlooker dialog in a sequence in which a little boy, totally taken with his game, shows the full gamut of facial expressions: nothing else exists apart from his screen. He is beside himself, captivated, captured.
Born in Cambodia in 1989, Kong Sokharo discovered photography by chance when, in high-school , he borrowed his uncle’s digital camera to take some snapshots of friends. Since, his desire to preserve the present moment has led him to broaden his knowledge of the subject, and it seems inevitable that, Kong Sokharo is now working with the Studio Images of the French Institute of Cambodia. He lives and works in Phnom Penh.
Photo Phnom Penh festival
From December 8 – 13, 2012
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
