Friday, 5 September 2008

ANGKOR photo fest nurtures talent

The Phnom Penh Post

Written by Peter Olszewski
Thursday, 04 September 2008

FINAL preparations for The Fourth Angkor Photography Festival, to be held in Siem Reap from November 23 to 28, are now in place.

While new innovations are planned for this year, as well as a more global outlook, essential components will be retained, including a series of free workshops for aspiring photographers, who will this year be taught clicks of the craft by renowned photographers Roland Neveu, Patrick de Noirmont, Antoine d'Agata and Suthep Kritsanavarin.

They have volunteered to tutor 30 young photographers selected from throughout Asia who work in photojournalism and documentar photography.

One of the free workshops, led by Laurent Zylberman and Vincent Soyez, will also select six to eight young photographers to specialise in commercial photography.Last year, the Paris Match Award for the best reportage produced during the workshop at the festival was given to Indian photojournalist Selva Prakash for a powerful photo essay about Aids patients and their families in Siem Reap.

Photography workshops for the children from the Anjali centre will also be held, and festival-end will see a fundraising auction for the Anjali children, with prints donated by world-famous photographers.

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