Row 770

Community Photobook Library [12 - 16 February 2025]

Row 770 

[Library & Public Programme Dates: 12 – 16 February 2025]

A library to be built entirely out of books people bring, Row 770 draws on our community’s love for photographs and books – and we’d love for you to come build it with us.

Initiated by alumni of the Angkor Photo Workshops, this collaborative project is a community-organised photobook library, reading and communal space for everyone to share, discover, and engage with each other over photobooks we love, or can’t seem to get over, or forget.

Row 770 is built entirely through community contributions, and we invite everyone to participate through one, or several, of the following ways:

1. Bringing one photobook that holds significance to you (or up to three if it becomes impossible to choose only one)

2. Writing a note, by hand, about why it just had to be this book, at this time

In addition to individual contributions, we extend the invitation to organisations, collectives and groups across Asia interested in creating a little section of their own books inside Row 770.

The space will be casual, informal and run by volunteer librarians who will be more than happy to recommend books to visitors if they don’t know where to start.

There will also be a corner available for sales of photobooks, zines and other items, and of course, snacks and really, really good coffee (or tea).

This collaborative approach aims to create additional avenues for both our current community and for new visitors to participate in the festival – to meet and to engage with each other – as bookmakers, curators, readers, authors and lovers.

If you’re interested in participating by contributing a book and/or selling yours, please sign up using the form below.

If you’re unable to come to Siem Reap in February, but would like to share a book – sign up using the same form and we’ll try to find someone near you to bring your book on your behalf.

If you’re interested in spending a day or two, or five, at the library as a volunteer, please also sign up using the form below.

Participants will have the option to be a part of a travelling show as ROW770 moves to other cities! Unless otherwise agreed, all books will be returned to their owners (their original lovers) at the end of the 20th Edition of Angkor Photo Festival.

We are in discussions to have part of ROW770 travel on to other cities! Are you keen to have your book a part of the travelling show?

ROW 770 comes from alumni Anshika Varma (Offset Projects), Withit Chanthamarit (Vacilando Bookshop) and Dennese Victoria.

Offset Projects is a publishing practice, library and curatorial initiative by Anshika Varma that functions with a focus on encouraging and platforming the evolving visual language in South Asia and beyond. It fosters collaboration- curating exhibitions and offering artist talks, workshops, residencies, reading rooms, and decentralised formats of publishing. Its publishing ethos comes from the urgency to work with the book as a site of companionship and support, centering relationship-building as the core tenet of building work. We believe that story telling lies at the heart of human creative energy and work to make a space for collective engagement, meaningful critique and reflective inquiry.
Vacilando Bookshop is a unique selected bookshop located near Bangkok’s old town area which presents vast selections of Photobooks, Art books and publications from many publishers around the world.
Beside distrbuting books in the region, Vacilando organises activities that focus on creating experiences between people (Co-Experienced Space), providing knowledge about the art of photography and creating an understanding of the independent publishing system through conversations and dialogues between customers, readers, artists, locals, and travelers from other countries.
Vacilando Bookshop also created several book exhibitions, photobookclub, film screening, workshops for all enthusiasts and co-hosted the artbook fair in Bangkok called printPRINT.