by jess | Dec 11, 2015 | 11th Edition (2015), 2015 Festival Programme, Anjali WS 2015
Thanks to everyone who joined us yesterday! Children’s Day is always a highlight of the Angkor Photo Festival, and a good day of fun, laughter and creativity. Of course, it was extra special this year because we had it at the circus! The event started with the...
by jess | Dec 9, 2015 | 11th Edition (2015), 2015 Festival Programme
Guest curator, Kevin WY Lee, shines a light on photography from Hong Kong and Taiwan with a special slideshow projection tonight. “When talking about photography from East Asia, we usually reference works from Japan and China. But photographers from Hong Kong...
by jess | Dec 9, 2015 | 11th Edition (2015), 2015 Festival Programme, Articles & Resources
When the Khmer Rouge took control of the capital in 1975, they issued an announcement to Phnom Penh residents to vacate the city for three days. Mak Remissa, who was 7 at that time, remembers his family denying the orders and hiding in their house to wait it out....
by jess | Dec 8, 2015 | 11th Edition (2015), 2015 Festival Programme, Articles & Resources
Kiribati is slowly disappearing underwater. This tiny Pacific nation with only 100,000 inhabitants is facing a crisis brought on by the changes in weather patterns. Faced with soil erosion, soil salinisation and extreme weather patterns, these effects from climate...
by jess | Dec 7, 2015 | 11th Edition (2015), 2015 Festival Programme, Articles & Resources
When Palani Mohan was a 17-year-old photographer with the Sydney Morning Herald, he came across a photograph of a man standing on the mountain edge with a golden eagle on his arm. The image stayed with him for a very long time. Years later, now based in Hong Kong, he...
