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15th Edition: 2020

  • 28 October 2019 – Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops celebrates its 15th year

14th Edition: 2019

  • 21 MARCH 2018 – Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops announces Asian-majority organising committee and new leadership.
  • 21 MARS 2018 – Le Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops s’autonomise en vue de sa 14ème édition : fonde son comité organisateur à majorité asiatique et change de direction

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Sayed Asif Mahmud (@sayed.asif.mahmud) is a docume Sayed Asif Mahmud (@sayed.asif.mahmud) is a documentary photographer and biker, based in Bangladesh. He is a graduate from Pathshala, South Asian Media Institute and currently teaching there. Asif ‘s work has been exhibited in Chobimela VI, Dhaka Art Summit, Bengal Art Lounge, Bangladesh, Bedales Gallery in UK and Noorderlicht Festival of Photography in Netherlands and UAE. His work Tobacco Tale got second prize in Non Traditional Photojournalism Award by NPPA (2013) and Honorable Mention in The 5th Edition of the Anthropographia Award 2013. He was one of the 25 best new photographers of 2015, selected by British Journal of Photography.⠀ . ⠀ Curatorial statement:⠀ “These are the works of artists, who I believe looked at their world with deep empathy and tried to experience, explore and investigate their life with passion and intimacy. Thus, they are deeply connected, yet diverse in content and approach.”⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #APFWtakeover #APFWAlumniCurates #AngkorPhoto #2020AngkorPhoto
. Photographer: Napat Wesshasartar (@tar.napatw ) . Photographer: Napat Wesshasartar (@tar.napatw ), Thailand I began underwater photography as a teenager who was inspired by other documentary photographers, which makes me want to be an adventurer. However, after I've seen how human activities have exploited our natural resources, I aim myself from just being dive for fun to seriously documenting marine conservation issues. Undeniably, we're all now facing environmental issues in countless ways. . Conservation photography allows me to collaborate with environmental organizations, which makes me see who the true hero is. They dedicate their lives to save the animals and environment impacted by human activities with the uncertainty of knowing when the animals will be ready for releasing soon or passed away in any seconds. In the marine rescue center, the veterinarian gently handles an injured dolphin, hoping it will get well soon and be ready to release it back to where it comes. The rescued seal pup curiously looks through my camera (maybe it thinks that who I am) after the conservationist has clean the tank, which I think it's an odd experience, but it's meaningful. . The photographs alone can do nothing. Yet, the people who look at the photo can.  . . . . -______________________ It was the swamp on the bathtub that stole my heart at the first sight. I always get mesmerized on how animals elicit such mixed feelings from the humans who share its abode. Looking at his body of works, Napat not only documented human-animal bonds, but also experience a profound intimacy in this bond. Curated by @okkyardya #APFWtakeover #APFWalumnicurates #APFWalumni #AngkorPhoto #2020AngkorPhoto
Photographer: Hanh-Tho Ta-Le (@hthertale ), Vietn Photographer: Hanh-Tho Ta-Le (@hthertale ), Vietnam Project: Red Scarf for an Adult Back in primary school, in addition to our uniforms, we had this Young Pioneer red scarf that our teachers would get to choose which students would first get to wear to school every day. They decided it based on our good study results and obedient behavior. Back at home, being a former teacher, my mom was also very strict about my studies and attitude. I was convinced by her that no bright future could come if I didn’t study well enough. Now that I’m out of school, no longer having something similar to strive for, I miss having a red scarf as a reward for being good. Using fashion photography as a language, I try to speak more of my personal experience, and less of the glamorous nature that inherently belongs to the fashion world. . . . -______________________ What interest me about Tho’s project is her process of artistic change to explore her personal experience during her senior life before graduation and her concept-built fashion photography in which initially depicted from her submitted works. As our communication developed, she wrote, “I enjoy extracting narratives from real life experiences, but there should also be details built from imagination.” Beyond a certain need for self-expression, her series evoke my sense of playful explorations; rediscover things that might be peripheral. . . Curated by @okkyardya #APFWtakeover #APFWalumnicurates #APFWalumni #AngkorPhoto #2020AngkorPhoto
. Photographer:  Salman Sam Daliri (@salman_samda . Photographer:  Salman Sam Daliri (@salman_samdaliri ),  Iran 
 Project: Emigration to Iran  
 Thousands of Afghans immigrate to Iran each year . Iran is one of the most important places for Afghans to migrate. Most of them due to lack of passports enter Iran across land borders. They travel long distances through the impassable mountains on foot to enter Iran and many of them lose their lives along these paths. Afghans who enter Iran illegally are scattered throughout this country. Due to the illegality of their stay, they always have many problems. Thousands of them are being returned to Afghanistan annually by the Iranian government for lack of residence permits. . . . _______________
 Very often we have seen repeatedly the stories of immigrants, refugees, or exiles that lead me to a question to myself: “Do we need more stories about this issue?” But perhaps, this is how Salman responds to things around him and the country he lives in. He’s not only following the journey of the Afghans, but also the inner journey of himself to develop a sense of humanity. Maybe I, myself, still need to answer that.  . . . Curated by @okkyardya 
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. Photographer: Aakriti Chandervanshi ( @agirlca . Photographer: Aakriti Chandervanshi ( @agirlcalledyellow ), India Project: “After Eden” Amidst the Garden of Eden lies empty elysian fields, still spaces, and the silence that echoes in them. Located in the southern outskirt of the Kathmandu Valley are Khokana and Bungamati, twin villages encompassing an archeological site, Ku Dey, out to the very edge of the foothills of the valley. But as the fog rises from the landscape it swept over, one begins to see that though the sacred lands inherent beauty, they are tempered with modern signs of intrusion and degradation. After Eden is a body of work which attempts to mediate between the evocative past and the elusive present informed in response to the changing landscapes on the notion of development. The indigenous inhabitants unite to save the last vestiges of their archaeological, geological and human histories from the ongoing state initiated fast-track under construction. The tainted terrains are a constant reminder of how the notion of progress trumps people, continually erasing and overwriting the land and memory. Through the series of physical traces rupturing the organic terrain are questions raised upon the need for this emerging fast track as it slices through these vast scapes. . Archival Image Courtesy / Nepal Picture Library @nepalpiclibrary . . . ____________________________ Going through Aakriti’s project, there’s something exquisitely beautiful, a serene landscape, but then my eyes stumbled upon a series of photo archive, merged with images that she has photographed. I suddenly thought, “what happened with the people in the photo archives?” Aside of the landscape issue that affect the community, her project expands my radar how rich photography is. Engaging with the materiality of photographic images and reconnecting past and present with possibilities waiting to be explored. 
Curated by @okkyardya . . . #APFWtakeover #APFWalumnicurates #APFWalumni #AngkorPhoto #2020AngkorPhoto
. Photographer: Tripoom Chongpipatanasook (@tripo . Photographer: Tripoom Chongpipatanasook (@tripoom.c), Thailand Project: “Mindwanders” Three years ago (2018) I left my country to continue my high school education abroad, after returning home shortly for summer in 2019 I tried to capture those senses of being apart and also took this chance to understand the inevitable changes of relationship with people around me. I kept the project going after my second departure, the feeling of distance with people I know and life abroad as a foreigner.  As I continue the project I dig deeper into meaning of photography and have a chance to also explore deeper surfaces, especially after returning home. ‘mindwanders’ is my very first project and also a record of my journey and how I have grown over the time. I was 16 and  very new to photography, this project is growing with me. Also after returning to Thailand due to the out break of COVID 19 the project continue as I tried to reconnect with everyone around before my next departure comes. . . -_________________ The series of empty rooms, the children’s toys, and the hugging person, attracted my gaze and intrigued my curiosity. At first, his images seemed to me just like emptiness, absence, coldness, isolated structures, and lacking of interaction. But the longer I look at the images, the more I feel connected by his experience as an outsider and a sense of being apart at a very young age. It allows me to reflect upon intimacy and familiarity; being apart from others, but also together with others. . Curated by @okkyardya . . #APFWtakeover #APFWalumnicurates #APFWalumni #AngkorPhoto #2020AngkorPhoto
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