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Festival Photo Phnom Penh 2024
Chiron Duong, Keep My Heart
La Plantation Urban Resort & Spa - November 21 to December 21, 2024
To invent a portrait of Vietnamese youth today, Chiron Duong proceeded in a systematic and highly organized manner. He asked each of his
models, all different, to come to his studio with two types of clothing, those they usually wear on a daily basis to go for a coffee or meet
friends and those they reserve for more important, more formal events, such as cocktail parties, concerts, artistic events. He also asked
them to answer a twenty-point questionnaire that allowed him to form a more precise opinion of them. Often surprising questions: Which
painting would you like to destroy or burn? Describe a chair that does not exist or describe a mask that you would like to wear, for
example. He then had his characters pose, asking them to move, to throw small objects while lighting them with strobe flashes that allow him
to break down the movement and invent, in a rather random way, dynamic compositions. This is how he already proceeded for his series on
"Ao Dài", the traditional Vietnamese dress that he published in 2023 in a large book that he titled Hope for Peace and Love.
Born in 1996, Chiron Duong did not intend to pursue photography at all and studied to become an architect and landscaper at the University of Ho Chi Minh City. He continues to work in these fields but, since 2017, he has been interested in photography and has quickly gained recognition in the field of fashion which is his professional activity and he was awarded in France by the Prix Picto for fashion photography in 2020, then in 2022 by the reference festival of fashion and photography of Hyères (France) before receiving in 2022 the Photo prize of Italian Vogue.
This project on youth is an exploration of identity as it’s possible to perceive through clothing appearance and asks whether or not it corresponds to a deep, inner reality. A questioning of the conscious and unconscious behaviors of this Vietnamese youth.
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).