Phnom Penh Photo 2012 –Uy Nou Sereimony

For personal reasons Uy Nou Sereimony has had to take time off from photography. But he has never lost his passion for it and keeps on looking, sometimes rather unmethodically, for ways of expressing himself through still image. After developing a graphic approach, he likes using the narration of situations and moods of the Cambodian society. Details such as the fact that pajamas can be worn in the streets. But between documenting and self¬portrait, he photographed, perhaps out of nostalgia or because he love gambling, the bus trip from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh and back. Slightly high up, precise in his framing, his exhibit invites us to follow him from the bustle of the city to the calm of the rice fields and the construction sites that he encounters as he goes along. In fine colors, sometimes subdued by rain, he invents a trip that takes all his attention, isolating a character here, a mark on the landscape there, crossing a herd of water buffaloes or lingering at an open¬air shop. In a most original way, he goes beyond travel photography, reinventing it.