festival 2008
ANGKOR PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL - 4th edition, November 23th - 28th, 2008 - Siem Reap
The Angkor Photography Festival is the first such event to be organized in Southeast Asia. This festival was created in 2005 and for the fourth time the temples of Angkor will become a hub that will draw concerned photographers from across the world.
The strong educational goals of the Angkor Photography Festival sets it apart from other photography festivals. The Angkor Photography Festival is built around the free workshops it organizes for emerging Asian photographers.
The Festival is run by volunteers working on small budgets and a large amount of goodwill. For this reason we have decided to limit our programme in 2008 so that we can concentrate our resources for a larger Festival in 2009. The programme for 2008 will be 5 evening audiovisual presentations curated by the workshop tutors and one evening of audio visual presentations curated by the Festival. In addition we will present our outreach programmes and have our annual fundraising photo auction for the Anjali childrens project.
We will be accepting applications for our Free Workshops shortly, more information will be available on this website.
If you would like to know more about donating to the APF please contact Camille Plante: camilleplante@gmail.com
Free Workshops for Young Asian Photographers
The Angkor Photography Festival will host a series of free workshops taught by reknown photographers who have many years of teaching and photography experience..
Roland Neveu, Patrick de Noirmont, Antoine d’Agata and Suthep Kritsanavarin have volunteered to tutor a selection of 30 young photographers from all over the continent in photojournalism and documentary based photography. One of the free workshops will specialize in commercial photography and will be tutored by Laurent Zylberman & Vincent Soyez. 6 to 8 young photographers will be selected to participate in this corporate and commercial oriented workshop.
Last year the Paris Match award for the best reportage produced during the workshop was given to the Indian photojournalist Selva Prakash for a very sensitive and powerful photo essay about AIDS patients and their families.
One of our students from 2007, Singaporean Sean Lee will have an exhibition at Hossein Farmani’s gallery in Los Angeles next summer.
The Angkor Photography Festival outreach programme helps the students to participate in other cultural events and assists with general career advice.
ANJALI, a centre for underprivileged children
The Angkor Photo Association founded Anjali, a centre that provides daily care and education to 70 street children. The project gives the children a well-rounded education that includes, aside from the traditional curriculum of reading, writing and arithmetic, English, ethics, photography and performing arts classes. During the festival there are photo workshops for the children and at the end there will be a fundraising Photo Auction for Anjali’s Benefit.
Arts Therapy and Participatory Photography Project
As part of the Angkor Photo Festival, Art Therapists Paula Holme and Isabelle Rodker, together with the photographer Hazel Thompson combine Art Therapy and Participatory Photography to empower and support women and their carers, all of whom are HIV+. The main aim of the project is to provide the women with relief from the psychological pain and trauma many experience and release from the stress they experience in their every day life. The project culminates in a projection of their photographic work during the Festival.
