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Festival Photo Phnom Penh 2024

Jean-François Spricigo - Retrouvailles

Factory Phnom Penh (FT Gallery) - November 21 to December 12, 2024 


A photograph is a vision, not a reproduction. Or, if it reproduces something, it is the emotion created by something seen in a glance and that it permitted to be caught. This is what each photo of Jean-François Spricigo seems to tell us, he who never ceases, in his daily life as well as during his travels on Reunion Island, Mayotte or Guyana, to observe nature. He questions himself as much as he questions us about the kind of relation we have with it and about the way we consider it and learn from it, or not.

This son of an Italian father and a Belgian mother, raised in Belgium, trained in photography then in cinema and image, also expresses himself through writing, radio and theater, with great freedom.

Even if some of his photographs can be in light colors, he favors a kind of black and white at the opposite of realism and that could be described as literary. He does not tell a story but with his evocations, most of them involving animals, many ones very elegant, but which can also appear dangerous, he knows how to provoke wonder, knows how to tell us gently that we must look attentively and respectfully. And wait for the image to come to you like a gift that he shares.

With him blurs, shadows, backlighting are not effects but a way of touching us and also asking us what we really see.

Among other distinctions, he received the prestigious Prix Nadar in 2023 for his book “Nous l’horizon resterons seul”.



Inauguration weekend from November 21 to November 24 in Phnom Penh 
Join us on November 21 at 6pm for the official launching of the festival at the French Institute!

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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";
  • 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).