Created in 2005, the Angkor Photo Festival is the first photography festival to be held in Southeast Asia. Each year the weeklong event features exhibitions and outdoor slideshows by celebrated and emerging photographers in Siem Reap. The strong educational goals of the Angkor Photo Festival sets it apart from other photography events. At the free Angkor Photo Workshops, renowned photographers tutor emerging Asian photographers, while the festival operates its own outreach program, the Anjali Children’s Photo Workshops.

2012 Program
Like the previous editions, the 8th Angkor Photo Festival does not have a themed program, but proposes to discover or rediscover artists from all over the world. This year, the festival received more than 1,200 submissions of work from 67 different countries. Consistent with the festival’s mission of highlighting emerging Asian photographers, 60 of the 130 exhibiting photographers in 2012 are from Asia. Angkor Photo Festival is a place to meet, connect and dialogue with friends and fellow photography professionals. The 2012 program of 10 outdoor and indoor exhibitions and 8 evenings of outdoor slideshows is curated by Françoise Callier, the Program Coordinator of the Angkor Photo Festival, in consultation with a 9-member international committee from 7 different countries.

Each year, the festival dedicates 2 evenings of slideshows as a « Carte Blanche » to two well-known figures in photography. The 2 invited curators for 2012 are Munem Wasif (Photographer -Vu Agency -Bangladesh) and Eddie Marsman (Writer, picture-editor and projects organizer -Netherlands) with Marco Wiegers (Photographer -Netherlands).

Artists of the 2012 edition are: Barry Abdoulaye, Abir Abdullah – Epa, Mario Algaze - Throckmorton Gallery, Nyc, Pablo Bartholomew,Harvey Benge, Halim Berbar - Sipa Press, Philip Blenkinsop, Solange Brand, Christopher Capozziello – Aevum, Hyungrak Choi, Robert Clark – Institute, Avery Danziger, Bob Demchuk, Misha Domozhilov, Maxim Dondyuk, Hosoe Eikoh, Laura El-Tantawy - VII Mentor Program, Linus Escandor - The Manila Bulletin, Enrico Fabian, Thierry Falise, Jean-Pierre Favreau, Dorian François, Misha Friedman – Cosmos, Gabriele Galimberti - Institute, Gianni Giosue – Anzenberger, Fabrice Guyot, Yoshihiro Hagiwara, Samsul Alam Helal, Guillaume Herbaut – Institute, Lam Duc Hien - Medecins du Monde, Anne Holmes, Inge Hooker, Anisur Hoque, Rob Hornstra, Nirohisa Hosaka, Sandra Hoyn, Ben Huff, Sohrab Hura, Thomas Jackson, Ren Jianjun, Di Jinjun, Eric Julien, Bornhoeft Kai, Yasuteru Kasano, Zhang Kechum - Greenpeace International, Sailendra Kharel, Marieke Kijk in de Vegte, Hajime Kimura, Valery Klamm - Birthmark on the Map, Eriko Koga, Srikanth Kolari - Redux Pictures, Jean-Philippe Ksiazek, Alexander Kustov - Birthmark on the Map, Alain Laboile, Laurence Leblanc - Vu Agency, Wyne Liu, Nicola Lo Calzo - Luzphoto Agency, Liz Loh-Taylor, James K. Lowe, Serge Maes, Narendra Mainali, Alexey Malgavko - Birthmark on the Map, Chambi Martin, Emmanuel Martin, Alex Masi - Corbis Images, Massimo Mastrorillo, Logan Mock-Bunting, Agnes Montanari - LeDesk, Arindam Mukherjee - Lightmediation, Gazi Nafis Ahmed - VII Mentor Program, Alakananda Nag, Dominic Nahr - Magnum Photos, Abhijit Nandi, Nguan, Poppe Nina, Rémi Ochlik - IP3, Asmita Parelkar, Marc-André Pauzé, Athit Perawongmetha - Greenpeace International, Pete Pin - Magnum Foundation, Panjar Prashant - Greenpeace International, Gianluca Pulcini, Stephan Rabold, Miti Ruangkritya, Moises Saman -Magnum Photos, Jonathan Saruk - Reportage by Getty Images, Frederic Sautereau, Robin Schwartz, Ahn Sehong, Hans Singles, Alexander Stepanenko - Birthmark on the Map, Ludmila Tabolina - Birthmark on the Map, Ai Takahashi, Andri Tambunan, Anastasia Taylor-Lind - VII, Peter Ten Hoopen, Weiffenbach Terri, Gali Tibbon, Albertina d’Urso, Laurent van der Stockt, Veejay Villafranca - Asia Motion, Jan von Holleben - Julian Meijer Associés, Munem Wasif - Vu Agency, Yukichi Watabe, Hiroshi Watanabe, Toshiya Watanabe, David Wells, Gordon Welters - Laif, Irina Werning, Indra Widi, Marco Wiegers, Patrick Willocq, Vanessa Winship - Vu Agency, Huang Xiaoliang, Yanming, Janek Zdzarski and Zhangxiao.

Highlights on 
-Energy [r]evolution : Renewable Energy in China, Thailand and India. Group show exhibition by Greenpeace International
-Labyrinth. Group show exhibition of 6 Japanese photographers, Tanto Tempo Cafe Gallery, Kobe, Japan
-Daily Life in Rural Russia. Group show exhibition of 5 Russian photographers - Birthmark on the Map - Blog Community
-Against all Odds. Andri Tambunan (Indonesia) - Winner of the 2o11 Reminders Project Asian Photographers Grant

For further informations visit: www.angkor-photo.com

Images

  1. © Linus Escandor / Courtesy of the Manila Bulletin, Fighting for their homes, Philippines
  2. © Linus Escandor / Courtesy of the Manila Bulletin, Fighting for their homes, Philippines
  3. © Abir Abdullah, Death traps in Dhaka
  4. © Bob Demchuk, Before tomorrow comes, Kenya
  5. © Emmanuel Martin, Afars, Djibouti Republic
  6. © Bob Demchuk, Before tomorrow comes, Kenya