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Festival Photo Phnom Penh 2024
Aglaé Bory, Two Series
Factory Phnom Penh (FT Gallery) - November 21 to December 12
She is undoubtedly part of this rich French documentary school which, for twenty years, has renewed the visual possibilities of the field
with great diversity of aesthetics. This work was produced as part of a very exceptional proposal from the French Minister of Culture, in
2022 and 2023 to 200 photojournalists or documentary photographers to show their portrait of France after the Covid pandemic.
The former student in Art History who then continued her studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d'Arles chose to focus her work on the artistic practices of young people in working-class neighborhoods, which she knows well. During Covid, all cultural venues had been closed and the post-Covid period showed how much young people wanted and needed to rediscover culture.
As always, Aglaé Bory produced portraits and, as usual, took the necessary time to give them a deep meaning. These are not formal portraits
but real encounters with young people in their environment. The photographer first met those who were to become her models, spoke with them,
they tamed each other, then the young people posed, alone or in groups, many with musical instruments or sketching the dance steps that are
their means of expression. All these images become a family album because the photographer, very precise in her framing which are never
affects that would take more importance than the characters, has managed to preserve a great unity of light, soft, peaceful. Like a new
birth but also with fantasy.
Inauguration weekend from November 21 to November 24 in Phnom Penh
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This year, Photo Phnom Penh is proud to present:
- At the French Institute (until January 15, 2025): a retrospective of 60 photographers who took part in the Festival Photo Phnom Penh throughout its history, with works never before seen in Cambodia (Gallery); Ourng Sam Ang with "The Beloved Kampong Som" (Media Library);
- On the wall of the French embassy: (until February 28, 2025): Vincent Fournier;
- At the SOSORO Museum (until December 21, 2024): Christine Spengler with "Retrospective";
- at Factory Phnom Penh : Jean-François Spricigo with "Retrouvailles", Aglaé Bory with "Two Series" & Alexandre Bergamini (until December 12 at the FT Gallery) ; 7 students of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d'Arles, France (until December 21 at the Air Gallery by Sra'Art);
- At La Plantation Urban Resort & Spa (until December 21, 2024): Chiron Duong;
- At Bophana Center (until December 21, 2024): Ly Sovanna with "Ranoch Visited Angkor";
- At Friends Future Factory (until December 21, 2024) : Mech Sereyrath with "When the Sun Reaches The River";
- At Phnom Penh Airports (until February 21, 2025): Kem Sovanna with "Landscape Sculpted by Light";
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At Studio Images - Maison de la Photographie: Soun
Sayon
with "Decay" (From November 22 to December 10); Mabe Bethônico with "One Traveller After
Another" from December 10 to January 10).