Photo Phnom Penh Festival

With 19 artists, 15 exhibitions, 8 venues, and 3 associate programs, the 14th edition of Photo Phnom Penh Festival stimulates the exchange between Europe and Asia and fosters the emergence of a new generation of Cambodian photographers.

Overview

Every year the festival alternates guest countries between Europe and Asia. In 2023, Photo Phnom Penh welcomes the guest country Taiwan exhibiting the work of five of its contemporary photographers. With their diversity, the program drawn up by Taiwan will emphasize the vitality of the photographic image on the island.

Another exhibition contemplates ten years of work by Kim Hak, who traveled in all parts of Cambodia to remind us that the country is more than just the temples of Angkor Wat and the Khmer Rouge Killing Field. This work on landscape, which underlines the richness and diversity of the territory, dialogues with the documentary approach and the subtle colors images of Olivia Gay taken in the East of France. 

Denis Dailleux invites the audience on a journey through his 30 years of memories in Egypt. He also presents a new work made in the largest flower market in Kolkata, India. The young Cambodian Hul Kanha exhibits her new series, navigating between photography and painting. 

Alan Crumlish introduces his archive of photographs taken in 1989, ten years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Coming back to the present, two series of Chhen Kimhong show bus stops by night before and during COVID-19.

Not to be missed is the famous traveling exhibition on tuk-tuks as well as a tuk-tuk tour which will take visitors to exhibitions around the city. Three screening evenings, debates, round tables, portfolio reviews, and meetings complete the program.