Things to see and do on the 10th year of the Angkor Photo Festival

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Now on it’s 10th year, the Angkor Photo Festival has always been a great showcase of photography in the Asian region. This year, they keep doing what they do best by giving everyone the best photography in Asia has to offer. If you have nothing to do on Nov. 29 to Dec. 6, I suggest you head on to Siem Reap and feast your eyes on what the festival has to offer. Everything is open to the public and free of charge.

Here are some of the things to look out for:

1) Exhibitions

Great work from all over the world will be shown. Ranging from Patrick Brown’s long term project on illegal Animal Trade in asia to Fan Ho’s early street work of daily life in Hong Kong. For full list of the exhibits and the artists showing their, just click the link above.

2) IPA Book show travelling edition

For the #buybooksnotgear fans out there, you have to check out this book show by Invisible Photographer Asia. They will have curated photobooks from Indonesia, Hong Kong, and China plus a lot of Artist Talks and Photobook launches.

3) Blowup.org street exhibitions and Projections

The group best describes what they will do for the exhibition

BlowUp Angkor is an outdoor photographic intervention by Blindboys.org which runs along side the 10th Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops. BlowUp brings exhibitions and projections to the street of Siem-Reap Cambodia. Spread over the city the exhibitions explores the intersection between the street and photography.

This will be a unique way to consume photography that should be interesting and a feast to the eyes.

4)  Angkor Photo Workshop slideshow

Every year, Angkor Photo Festival holds a free professional photography workshops for up and coming photographers in the region. The task is to come up with a photo story in less than 5 days. That story will be show in last night of the festival on Dec. 6. The workshop will be conducted by world class photographers such as Antoine D’ Agata, Sohrab Hura, Kosuke Okahara, Ian Teh, Patrick De Noirmont, and Suthep Kritsanavarin.

In closing

I am happy to say that I am part of the workshop and in the upcoming days, I will be sharing my notes, try to report on the exhibitions I see, and share the books I will get my hands on.

Again, everything is free and open to the public so I suggest everyone to drop on and by and enjoy the photofestival and explore the city of Siem Reap.

For more info and updates check out the following links:

Official website

Official Facebook Page

Twitter 

Thanks,

– A.g.