15 years! It has been 15 years since Picture Phnom Penh was born on the initiative of Alain Arnaudet, then director of the French Cultural Middle. A competition which had the twin ambition of creating exchanges between European and Asian artists and fostering the emergence of a brand new era of photographers, in a small nation nonetheless reeling from the murderous insanity of the Khmer Rouge regime.
In 2008, it was tough to search out 4 Cambodian photographers to exhibit. In the present day, dozens of them have had their work exhibited in the course of the competition, and dozens extra may. These Cambodian photographers are additionally often proven overseas, in Europe and within the Asia-Pacific space. In 2008, 90% of holiday makers had been expatriates, at present it’s the reverse and the numerous volunteers whom I wish to thank as soon as once more, with out them the competition wouldn’t exist – show that pictures has develop into an actual middle of curiosity, amongst younger folks and others. The exchanges between cultures have taken on an actual academic dimension in a rustic the place coaching in pictures remains to be not critically thought of.
In the present day, organized by Picture Phnom Penh Affiliation, an impartial Cambodian NGO, the competition advantages from its major companions, the Institut français du Cambodge and the delegation of the European Union in Cambodia, whereas increasing its community of native and worldwide contributors. We’re comfortable and pleased with the help supplied by the Swiss Company for Growth and Cooperation (SDC), which is able to allow the longer term creation of the Home of Pictures. Simply as we’re delighted with the return, amongst our companions, of Cambodia Airports by Vinci which is able to permit us to welcome guests upon their arrival within the capital with pictures from this system. It stays on the identical editorial line by favoring the change and exhibiting the brand new rising Cambodian artists.
After the Swiss Confederation final yr, we’re comfortable to welcome our new visitor Taiwan with 5 of its modern photographers, alternating our partnership with visitor nations between Europe and Asia. With their variety, inscribed within the historical past of pictures in addition to in its current developments, this system drawn up by Taiwan will emphasize the vitality of the photographic picture on the island.
At Institut français, ten years of labor by Kim Hak, who traveled in all components by means of his beloved Cambodia, reminds us that the nation is extra than simply the temples of Angkor Wat and the Khmer Rouge Killing Discipline. This work on panorama, which underlines the richness and variety of the territory, will dialogue with the documentary strategy and the refined colours photographs of Olivia Homosexual taken within the East of France. Denis Dailleux, who has the distinction of being proven on the nice wall of the French Embassy, invitations us on a journey by means of his 30 years of recollections in Egypt in heat and vibrant tones. He may also current a brand new work simply as wealthy, made in India the place he immersed himself within the largest flower market in Kolkata. The younger Cambodian Hul Kanha will current her new sequence of photographs, between pictures and portray at La Plantation Resort & Spa. The Bophana Middle will welcome the pictures of Alan Crumlish taken in 1989, ten years after the autumn of the Khmer rouge regime.
We’re delighted to return again to this place of wealthy archives on the historical past of the nation, which has hosted the competition since its starting. The younger photographer Chhen Kimhong will current two sequence at Sra’Artwork gallery in addition to Manufacturing unit Phnom Penh, alongside different Studio Pictures photographers.
To not be missed, our well-known “touring exhibition” which is able to journey across the metropolis for 2 months, because of an extended collaboration with an entire group of tuk-tuks who, behind their “trailers”, carry works thus made accessible to everybody and which is able to take you on a unprecedented inventive and concrete escapade.
15 years after its creation, Picture Phnom Penh could be very a lot alive and simply ready to develop, in a troubled and unstable interval.
Christian Caujolle
Founder, Artwork Director of PPP.
PHOTO PHNOM PENH FESTIVAL 2023
Fourteenth version
From December seventh 2023 to February seventh, 2024
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