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Festival Photo Phnom Penh 2024
Alexandre Bergamini - Hiroshima, a return to life
Factory Phnom Penh (FT Gallery) - November 21 to December 12, 2024
Alexandre Bergamini is a French photographer and writer of Italian origin whose photographic research revolves around an archaeology of memory. He uses intimate archives and writing as a possible legend; photographic legend and "marvelous story where historical facts are transformed by imagination and poetic invention". What is seen and what is out of frame, what is considered real and true and what is no longer.
Born in 1968, he first worked in the field of theater, since 1999 he has published books around photography and several literary texts, poems, stories of intimate travels (India, Japan, cargo ship trips) and historical stories, with themes of abandonment and loss, wandering through travel and encounter, the imprint and absence of his brother Vivian, who committed suicide at the age of eighteen, and the last part of his work on the theme of returning to life. He has published two books on photography, "Casa central" in 2001, and "Le Livre de Vivian", in 2019. He has been exhibited in Marseille and at the Dumba collective in Brooklyn. He is currently continuing his project with a book of personal photographic and literary archives, traces and proofs, an X-ray of memory and wandering. Through the family album, Alexandre Bergamini questions intimate and popular history, confronted with official history.
He is the 2024 winner of the cross-residency program “La Route des résidences” co-organized by the French Institute of Cambodia, the French Institute of Vietnam and the Alliance française de Chiang Maï and the writing residency program “Villa Marguerite Duras”. He presents a work in progress for which he is in residence, text and legendary photographs around the presence and absence in Hiroshima, entitled "Hiroshima, the return to life."
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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
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with "Decay" (From November 22 to December 10); Mabe Bethônico with "One Traveller After
Another" from December 10 to January 10).