Maika Elan: The Pink Choice

"I want to show simply how they care and love each other in daily activities."-Maika Elan According to the web edition of Thanh Nien, an influential newspaper in Vietnam, Maika has changed Vietnams entire conception of what it means to be gay and in love with her seminal work The Pink Choice. Sensitive and compelling...that's The Pink Choice in two words. I'm not going to rewrite what has already been written on Maika and her various projects, but I have to mention a couple of things: first off I had written a post on her work two years ago, much before I met her at subsequent photo events, and I ended that post with this: "In my view,...

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Roger Anis: The First Stone

"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." Roger Anis is a photojournalist at the Egyptian daily newspaper Al Shorouk, and is based in Cairo. He graduated with a degree in Fine Arts, and was awarded a scholarship for the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, during whch he attended Hemrik Kastenkov's Storytelling For An Online Audience class. His project is titled The First Stone, inspired by the passage in the Bible in which Jesus confronts the Pharisees over whether an adulterous woman ought to be stoned. The project was filmed and photographed in Loi Kroh Road, a well known area in Chiang Mai where bar girls can be seen plying their occupation, providing company (and more) to Western tourists. The story is of Un, a 36 year old bar girl, who agrees to...

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Angkor Photo Festival 2012: Submission Calls

Angkor Photo Festival is calling for submissions with a deadline of May 31, 2012!!! The festival's 2012 program will present works photographed throughout the world through exhibitions and slideshows in Siem Reap, with no imposed theme. The submissions guidelines and form contain all the information needed on how to submit work for this years festival. The festival will be held from December 1- 8, 2012 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The deadline to submit the application is May 31, 2012, and all photographers will receive an answer by the end of July 2012. Since its inception in 2005, more than 180 young photographers from all over...

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On The Way To The 7th Angkor Photo Festival

I'll be traveling tomorrow to London for a brief stopover before flying off to Siem Reap via Abu Dhabi and Bangkok. I chose to fly Etihad, the Abu Dhabi airline, from London to Bangkok after hearing it offered an impressive flying experience in terms of comfort and service.The festival itself is to take place in Siem Reap from November 19 to November 26, 2011. This well established event is the first photography festival held in Southeast Asia and for 2011, will exhibit the work of 110 photographers, out of whom 60 are from Asia.The 2011 list of exhibiting photographers includes Andrew Biraj, Pep Bonet, Paula Bronstein, Marco Di Lauro, Tewfic...

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Angkor Photo Festival Program 2011

I take great pleasure in featuring the 7th Angkor Photo Festival Program Preview which is to take place in Siem Reap from November 19 to November 26, 2011. This well established event is the first photography festival held in Southeast Asia and for 2011, will exhibit the work of 110 photographers, out of whom 60 are from Asia. The 2011 list of exhibiting photographers includes Andrew Biraj, Pep Bonet, Paula Bronstein, Marco Di Lauro, Tewfic El-Sawy, Siddharth Jain, Yuri Koryzev, Liz Loh-Taylor, Wendy Marijnissen, Erica McDonald, Palani Mohan, and many more.My photographs from the photo essay The Possessed of Hazrat Mira Datar will be screened...

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Angkor Photo Workshops 2011

Now in its 7th year, the free 2011 Angkor Photo Workshops is now officially accepting applications from all young Asian photographers. To get started, photographers can download and read through the application guidelines and the application form below: APWS 2011 Application Guidelines APWS 2011 Application Form The guidelines and form contains all the information needed on how to apply for this years workshops. However for clarifications and or questions, the Angkor Photo Workshops can be contacted email at angkorworkshop [at] gmail.com . The workshop will be held from November 17  23, 2011 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. As per the...

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Beat Presser: Oasis of Silence

Photograph © Beat Presser-All Rights ReservedWhen Beat Presser was in late teens, he traveled through Southeast Asia, and met with a car accident in Thailand. Healed from a serious spine injury by monks in a Buddhist monastery, he vowed to do something in return, should he become the photographer he intended to be.Between 2000 and 2004, he returned to live in Theravada Buddhism monasteries in Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Sri Lanka, and photographed the essence of Buddhism. Oasis of Silence is the resulting photographic exhibition and book.Presser also produced an accompanying website My Oasis of Silence allows participants to post their...

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Angkor Photo Festival: Nov 17-28, 2007

The Angkor Photography Festival, the first of its kind in South-East Asia, was created in 2005 by Gary Knight, Christophe Loviny and Jean-Yves Navel. This year, for the third time, the temples of Angkor will become a hub for famous and passionate photographers from across the world. The festivals program cuts a broad swathe through the world of photography in Asia and plays host to concerned documentary photography and fine art photography. This year, the festival presents this part of the world through the eyes of photographers from Europe (Agns Dherbeys Olivier Fllmi, and Simon Larbalestier among others), from the United States (Stephanie Sinclair, John Stanmeyer, and others), from India (Altaf Qadri, Dar Yasin and Palani Mohan) and many more. The whole programme for the festival is available...

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WP: Rain in Angkor

Image Copyright © Stephen Brookes-All Rights ReservedThe Washington Post brings us an 'aimed at tourists' slide show feature on Angkor and Siem Reap.Stephen Brookes went to Cambodia to see the famous temples of Angkor in July at the peak of monsoon season. Seasoned travelers warned him that going during the monsoon rains would be madness and that he would face more than 50 inches of rain, waste his time being stranded in your hotel, and swatting at mosquitoes. He shares my contrarian idea that the monsoon is the best time to see Cambodia because there are few tourists (comparatively), and the rain rarely lasts more than an hour or two. The rain...

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Angkor Photo Festival: Nov 17-28, 2007

A reminder that the third annual Angkor Photography Festival is to be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, for 12 days of photographic events and celebrations from November 17 to 28, 2007.The festival brings together well-known and passionate photographers from across the world in a spirit of creativity and sharing. It showcases exhibitions and outdoor projections about Asia by renowned artists and photojournalists, while differentiating itself from other events with its strong educational goals.Participants share their art by leading free workshops for young Asian photographers, and give their time to outreach projects for street children, landmine...

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Angkor Photography Festival: Update!

From Widows of Angkor Wat-Copyright Tewfic El-SawyI've received the following message from Francoise Callier, the curator of the Third Angkor Photography Festival:The third Angkor Photography Festival will be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from November 18 to 28, 2007.For the program of exhibitions and slideshows, we are looking for work about South and Southeast Asia, China, and the Far East. To facilitate the selection committee's job, work should be uploaded to a (free) flickr account on http://www.flickr.com and the URL sent to my e-mail address, frcallier989(at)gmail(dot)com, accompanied by a clear description of the project and a short biography...

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Angkor Photography Festival

From Celestial Apsaras-Image Copyright © 2006 Tewfic El-Sawy The third Angkor Photography Festival will be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from November 18th to 28th.For the program of exhibitions and slide-shows, the organizers are looking for stories about South and South-East Asia, China, India and Far-East Asia. Especially welcome are recent projects, but older or even historical series are not excluded. The work must be accompanied by a clear description of the project plus a short bio (120 words) and complete contact details of the photographer.The deadline for submitting work is June 15, 2007. The selected photographers will receive an answer...

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