the angkor photography festival-november 18-28, 2007, siem reap, cambodia

It is never late to know who is who...cheers..kp
participants
Antoine d'Agata
http://www.magnumphotos.com
Antoine d'Agata is a member of Magnum Agency. He studied photography at the ICP in New York in 1990 under Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. An adventurous spirit in search of himself and always on the lookout for new adventures, Antoine d'Agata invites us on a journey. He does not try to illustrate the world but rather shows how he fits into it. The lyricism of the presentation and the exaggeration of the situations force us to question the reality of what we see. His first book, "Mala Noche", was published in 1998, followed by Hometown in 2001, the year he received the Niepce Prize. "Vortex" and "Insomnia" were published in 2003, and Stigm in 2005.

Achinto Bhadro
achinto@vsnl.com
Achinto Bhadro was born in 1959 prior to taking up photography as a profession, lived, worked and managed the Crafts Centre at Asha Niketan L arche International a community for the mentally challenged. He studied photography at Chitra Bani, Calcutta and at the London College of Printing on receiving the Charles Wallace Award. Over the years as an independent photographer his interest and assignments from National and International Development Agencies led him to cover issues of the Urban poor, children and women, and he contributed in many exhibits and books, in India, U.K., France, South East Asia.

Jan Banning
banning@solcon.nl
Jan Banning was born is 1954 in the Netherlands. He studied history and has been a photographer since 1981, concentrating on self-initiated projects, such as The Office and Aftermath of Wars. He has received many journalistic and cultural awards, among them a 2004 World Press Photo Award. His photo books are Vietnam: Doi Moi (1993), Traces of War and Survivors of the Burma and Sumatra Railways (2005). Banning s photographs have been published in Newsweek, Foreign Policy, Sunday Times Magazine, Le Monde 2 and NRC Handelsblad M. His work was exhibited at the Noorderlicht Festival (Groningen/Leeuwarden), the Kunsthal (Rotterdam), the Dorsky Gallery (New York), the Erasmushuis (Jakarta) and others and shown at Visa pour l Image (Perpignan). His photos have been purchased by the Ministry of Justice (Holland), the Open Society Archives (Hungary) and private collections.

Pablo Bartholomew
http://www.lightstalkers.org/pablobartholomew
Pablo Bartholomew is based in New Delhi, India. He divides time between photography, running long term photography workshops, and managing a software company that specializes in photo databases solutions and server based digital archiving systems. Between 2001 and 2003 ran photography workshop for emerging photographers in India with the support of the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam. Pablo has also photographed societies in transition in different locations. He won the World Press Photo award for his series Morphine Addicts in India (1975) and the World Press Picture of the Year for the Bhopal Gas Tragedy (1985). He has taken part in several international exhibitions and published in Newsweek, Time, National Geographic and Geo amongst other prestigious magazines.

Françoise Callier
frcallier@wanadoo.fr
Françoise Callier was born in Belgium and moved to Paris in 1983. She worked for fifteen years with 2eBureau, a press and public relations office, agenting photographers like Helmut Newton and Jean-Paul Goude. She worked for seven years for the Photojournalism Festival Visa pour l Image in Perpignan France. French correspondent for Corbis for three years, she also did volunteer work with disabled children and at a children s hospital. Currently helping the Kogi Indians to recoup parts of their ancestral lands in Colombia, Françoise Callier is an avid traveller who has visited Antarctica and wrote stories about a mischievous king penguin girl called Lila. Her books Silly Lila, Lila on Ice, Lila in Africa and ABC in the Wild are for sale on Amazon.com

Thierry Chantegret
http://www.agence37.com
Thierry Chantegret, photojournalist, explores the relationship between cities and their inhabitants. He has worked in various countries such as India and Argentina, but more recently in a small French town, Charleville Mezieres, where the Poet Arthur Rimbaud was born and raised. The Ardennes Museum commissioned him to help commemorate the town's 400th birthday, and allowed him to work in the poet s house. Thierry now plans to settle in Charleville Mezieres, which has been severely affected by unemployment. In addition to developing his personal artistic creations, he also organises educational workshops with schools and welfare centers.

Greg Constantine
http://www.gregconstantine.com
Greg Constantine was born in the United States. Since 2003, he has worked on stories about: North Korean refugees; life in modern-day Tokyo; struggling communities on the US Mexico border, and the lives of paroled women in Watts, Los Angeles. His photographs have been featured in several international publications and have been utilized by Refugees International, Human Rights Watch and Medecins Sans Frontieres. His work has been exhibited in South Korea, Los Angeles, Washington, DC and Pittsburgh. His recent, on going project, Nowhere People, documents the effects statelessness has on minority groups in Asia. Photographs from this project have been nominated for UNICEF Photo of the Year and will also be exhibited in Bangladesh at the international photography festival, Chobi Mela IV.

Thomas De Cian
http://www.lightstalkers.org/thomasdecian
Thomas De Cian was born in Italy in 1978. He studied journalism in Australia and has been a freelance photojournalist since 2001. After graduating, his passion for photography brought him to Southeast Asia and he is been living in the region since 2002 His black and white reportages focus on social and political issues throughout Asia and want to show the sheer humanity that can lie behind even the most unusual an desperate situations. It is in these very situations that the strength and the instinct of survival come out, by contrast men reveal their most human side and can even find the time for a moment of happiness. Thomas is currently based in Bangkok, Thailand.

Christine Cibert
chcibert@aol.com
Christine Cibert is a French art curator and a free-lance journalist. She majored in Japanese language and culture and in Art History studies at Paris University. Afterwards, she moved to Tokyo where she has been living and working for more than ten years, as an art dealer and a curator, organizing cultural events, exhibitions for painters and photographers into art galleries, cultural centers and museums in Japan and in France. She also has been writing on art, cultural and social subjects for French and Japanese newspapers and magazines : France-Japon Eco, Agence France Presse, Jipango, Wasabi, Les Voix, Cambodge Soir, Kateigaho International Edition, L'Art Aujourd'hui, Univers des Arts, Cahiers d'art and France Culture Radio. Since several years, she also has developed her activities to South-East Asia (Cambodia, Vietnam).

Olivier Culmann
http://www.tendancefloue.net
Olivier Culmann, member of Tendance Floue, photographer's collective, photographs people watching TV. And their TV sets. The viewers' eyes are glued to the screen, hypnotized by the images that flicker by. Olivier Culmann captures that instant during which attention subsides and consciousness slumbers, rocked to sleep by the phosphorescence of the cathode ray tubes. At that instant, their bodies often become comfortable, they curl up on the couch and then collapse. Nothing could be more banal. And nothing more unsettling. Because that is how, in quasi immobile passivity, when the brain has gone numb, that we, television viewers receive the world in its entirety. Not the real world, but an image of that world, a ghostly version of reality.

Binh Danh
sunleafprints@yahoo.com
Binh Danh received a MFA degree in Studio Art from Stanford University and a BFA in Photography from San Jose State University. He invented a unique process for printing photographs onto the surface of leaves by exploiting the natural process of photosynthesis. Combining the diverse disciplines of art, history, and science, Danh extensively researches the subject matter he is drawn too. He is a recipient of a 2004 Artist Project Award from the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA and his work is in the collection of de Young Museum, the Corcoran Art Gallery, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California. He is represented by Haines Gallery in San Francisco.

James W. Delano
http://www.jameswhitlowdelano.com
James W. Delano is a romantic. His duotone photographs evince a poet's eye - dreamy, impressionistic, subtle, often melancholic. His photographs portray the ironies and contradictions of 20th-century Asia. The duotone prints themselves contribute to the sense of timelessness. Describing his working method, James says: "I must pass by quickly and quietly in order to capture the 'out of the corner of my eye' immediacy that I seek before I disturb the scene."

Agnes Dherbeys
http://www.evephotographers.com/
Agnes Dherbeys is a French photographer distributed by French Cosmos Agency and a founder member of EVE. She graduated with honours from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Lyon and from a Master 2 of Sciences of Information and Communication from Celsa, Sorbonne IV. She learned photography when she moved to Bangkok in 2001, and has since mainly worked in Nepal, East Timor, Cambodia and Thailand, with parentheses in Palestinian Territories. Her work has been published in Newsweek, Le Monde 2, Liberation, the South China Morning Post Magazine, Marie Claire, Days Magazine. She was winner of the Foundation Lagardere grant 2005, for her project in East Timor, titled: “From Independence to Dependence.”

Stephen Dupont
stephendupont@bigpond.com
Stephen Dupont is an international award winning Australian photojournalist and a member of Contact Press Images. His reportages has been featured in The New Yorker, Newsweek, French and German GEO, Liberation, The Sunday Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, and Time, and has earned him photography's most prestigious prizes, including a Robert Capa Gold Medal citation from the Overseas Press Club of America in 2006, and first places in the World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International. Having exhibited his work in London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, and at Perpignan's Visa Pour L'Image, in 1999 Dupont was a founding member of the first festival of photojournalism in Australia: REPORTAGE-A. He works on long term projects around war, conflict and social issues.

Hosoe Eikoh
Hosoe Eikoh, Freelance photographer, Professor Emeritus at Tokyo Institute of Polytechnic, Director of Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts. Also currently serves as vice chair of Japan Professional Photographers Society and Japan Society for Arts and History of Photography. Born in 1933, after studying at the Tokyo College of Photography, Hosoe gained recognition with Barakei (Ordeal by Roses), a 1963 collection of portraits of novelist Yukio Mishima, and was awarded the Minister of Education's Arts Encouragement Prize in 1970 for Kamaitachi, a photo essay on Tatsumi Hijikata, founder of the Butoh Dance movement. In addition to his numerous publications and his works kept in many Art Collections, he also participated to many Individual and Selected Group Exhibitions in Japan and all over the world. As a photographer of international renown, he has also contributed to the internationalization of Asian photography. Hosoe was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon of Japan in 1998 and the 150th Special Anniversary Medal of the Royal Photographic Society in 2003.

Brendan Esposito
http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2005/10/05/1128191773885.html
Brendan Esposito has been a press photographer for almost 20 years. He works for The Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily Telegraph, and is a stringer for AFP and Reuters. His assignments have included royal, papal and presidential tours. Esposito's extensive photography of the last remaining circuses in Australia was exhibited at the NSW Library. His last assignment, on street children addicted to glue sniffing in Siem Reap, has been exhibited at the inaugural festival. He is a new talent discovered during VII's workshop in February 2005.

Claude Estebe
Claude Estebe is a photo-historian. He published Les Derniers samouraïs and Le Crépuscule des geishas. He is currently working on a book about the dawn of japanese photography from his phd thesis. His photographic works questions the "cultural body" : mannequins (Perfect skin, 1994) , dancers (with Matoma and Susan Buirge)… His last work, Eloge des jambes, begun during a residence at Villa Kujoyama in 2000, completes an exhibition at Gallery U in Tokyo from 2003. This is gaze between sociology and voyeurism about japanese attitudes that seem a "cultural invariant". In a country of fast moving fashion, uchimata gait remains unchanged since centuries…

Thierry Falise
http://www.thierryfalise.com
Thierry Falise is a Belgian photojournalist based in Bangkok since 1991. He is a regular contributor (text and photos) to magazines and dailies such as L'Express, Le Point, Paris-Match, Le Figaro Magazine, Marie France, VSD, Grands Reportages, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Sunday Times and many more. In 2003, with a French colleague, he was arrested during a forbidden trip to the Laos jungle where he had met members of the abandoned Hmong community, once allies of the CIA during the Indochina war. Both reporters were sentenced to 15 years in prison but, thanks to a vast international solidarity campaign, were released after five weeks.

Philip Jones Griffiths
http://www.magnumphotos.com/cf/htm/TreePf_MAG.aspx?Stat=Photographers_Portfolio&E=29YL53IRGC5
Philip Jones Griffiths photographed in Vietnam from 1966 to 1970 and became famous for his book on the war, Vietnam Inc. Out of print in a few weeks, Vietnam Inc. crystallized public opinion and was essential in shaping Western misgivings about the US involvement in Vietnam and ultimately helping to bring the war to an end. Jones Griffiths, one of the very few photographers with his own agenda, was able to concentrate on conditions behind the headlines, and Vietnam Inc. is also a documentary study of Vietnamese folk life. In 1980, Griffiths moved to New York to assume the presidency of Magnum, a post which he held for a record five years.

Katharina Hessesettled
http://www.digitalrailroad.net/kathchina
Katharina Hessesettled down in Beijing in the mid-1990s after finishing a graduate degree in Chinese studies at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (I.N.A.L.C.O) in Paris. She initially worked as an assistant for German TV (ZDF) and then freelanced for Newsweek from 1996 to 2002, where she did both reporting and photography. In 2003 and 2004 Hesse covered China for Getty's news service. She is self-taught in photography, albeit with a temporary apprenticeship under Peter Turnley. Currently she is an accredited photographer based in Beijing.

Claudio Hils
http://www.claudio-hils.com
Claudio Hils is a photographer, curator and communication designer. He has published numerous books on photography and the history of photography. His own photographic and artistical work is located at the thin line between artistical studies and social and political landscapes So he published the project RED LAND, BLUE LAND about the history of war. Furtheron he realised the project ARCHIVE_BELFAST which explores contemporary approaches to history, informed by ideas of identity and cultural inheritance, which increasely challenge the exclusivity of the archive. The here showed project DREAM CITY explores differences and similarities about the worldwide developments of urban space. He teaches photography at the University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg in Austria and the University of Design Schwäbisch Gmünd in Germany.

Malcolm Hutcheson
malcolmhutcheson@yahoo.co.uk
Malcolm Hutcheson found himself growing up, feeling a responsibility to understand as much as he could of the big topic i.e. LIFE. It's not surprising that when he was eight he was not managing to understand anything; but unknown to him many others had felt the same way and invented photography to solve this very problem. As years passed he grew sad at all the beautiful things he had known that ceasing to exist and decided that whenever possible he would try to keep some of them with him. He found himself in Pakistan where he stayed to take photographs of what was not going to be there tomorrow. Currently working in Lahore on documenting the lives of residents of the Walled City, creating an Archive of 20th century photography in the Punjab including preserving the practise of “Ru Kitch” or “Minto” Photography, documenting historic monuments and buildings in Pakistan and developing a photographic style that will satisfy the above.

Stuart Isett
http://www.isett.com
Stuart Isett is a Swiss-born, American photographer based in Seattle, USA. After spending over a decade living and working in Asia and Europe, based in Bangkok, Tokyo and Paris, he moved to Seattle in 2006. His interest in Asia started in the early 1990s while working along the Thai-Cambodian border. He worked on a 3-year project on the city's Cambodian street gangs which was shown at the 2005 Angkor Photography Festival. Isett continues to work on documentaries in Asia and his work regularly appears in The New York Times, Time and Newsweek magazines among others. He is currently finishing a book project on Kyoto titled 'Kyotoland' which has been shown at the 2006 Reportage Festival in Australia, and at the Daegu Photo Biennale in Korea.

Sangeeta Isvaran
http://www.narthaki.com/info/intervw/intrvw77.html
Sangeeta Isvaran is a dancer, choreographer and researcher from India. A passionate believer in the power of art as a dynamic and exciting medium to foster empowerment and social change, she has worked with many different underprivileged groups such as street children and refugees. Using a combination of arts - classical, popular, martial, circus, Bollywood - from the different domains of dance, music, visual arts, poetry and literature, her work focuses on helping individuals express how they perceive their lives.

Ed Kashi
http://www.edkashistock.com/T/1159883949226
Ed Kashi has dedicated his photographic career to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. Kashi, with a degree in photojournalism from Syracuse University, has been photographing professionally since 1979. He has since photographed in over 60 countries and his images have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, Geo, Newsweek and many others. In December 2002, Kashi and his wife Julie Winokur founded Talking Eyes Media, a non-profit educational multimedia company that explores social issues through visually compelling materials. The first documentary project for Talking Eyes Media produced a book (1993) and travelling exhibition on uninsured Americans called, Denied: The Crisis of America's Uninsured. The exhibition continues to travel across America.

Gary Knight
http://www.viiphoto.com
Gary Knight, co-founder of the Angkor Photography Festival, is a British photographer now residing in France. Also founder of the agency VII - today's reference in photojournalism - he has covered most of the world's conflicts over the past 15 years, from ex-Yugoslavia to Iraq's war, for the American magazine Newsweek. His work focuses mainly on poverty and defending human rights. Through VII, he organizes photography workshops that share the experiences of the agency's exceptional members.

Antonin Kratochvil
http://www.viiphoto.com
Antonin Kratochvil is Czech but lives in New York when he is not abroad reporting. This ex-political refugee is an unusual photographer. His work ranges from reporting on street children in Mongolia for the Museum of Natural History, to covering war in Iraq for Fortune or shooting portraits of David Bowie for Detour or of Deborah Harry for an advertising campaign for the American Civil Liberties. His latest book, Vanishing is the culmination of 15 years of reflection on natural and cultural phenomena facing extinction.

Kalpesh Lathigra
kalpesh.lathigra@btinternet.com
Kalpesh Lathigra was born in 1971 in London. Kalpesh studied Law at University before dropping out to pursue photography. He went to the London College of Printing to take a Postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism and was awarded The Independent Newspaper's Photography Scholarship, after spending a year on staff he turned freelance working for national newspapers until 2000 when he was awarded a 1st prize in the World Press Photo (Arts category). He left newspapers in 2000 to concentrate on long term projects. In 2004 Kalpesh was awarded The W. Eugene Smith Fellowship for the “Brides of Krishna” and in 2005 a Winston Churchill Fellowship. Recently Kalpesh has been working on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, USA looking at the life of the Lakota Sioux tribe. Kalpesh's work has appeared in The Sunday Times Magazine (UK), The Guardian Magazine, The Independent Magazine, Geo, Marie Claire, Le Monde, etc...

Atul Loke
atulloke@yahoo.com
Atul Loke is an Indian photojournalis. He's work have been published in major international and national magazines and newspapers. He is the recipient of Japan's Young Portfolio Award (2002), a three months photography fellowship in Europe in Year 2002 to brush up photography and photo-editing skills with renowned photographers from National Geography and Magnum Agency and was part of the prestigious World Press photo to be a part of three years seminar in India and worked on their projects in the year 2000-06. He has been covering major national & social issues across the country and currently working on the personal book project in Mumbai.

Christophe Loviny
http://www.jazz-editions.com
Christophe Loviny, co-founder of the Angkor Photography Festival, is a photojournalist and editor. A specialist of Southeast Asia for over 25 years, he was based in Angkor from 1989 to 1994. His work on Cambodia has been published in The Sunday Times Magazine, Asiaweek, Geo, L'Express, Paris-Match, Stern, Le Figaro-Magazine, etc... He is the author of several illustrated books, one of which is "Les Danseuses Sacrées d'Angkor" (Seuil), a collection of texts and photographs on the identity of Cambodia. His latest book is "Cuba by Korda" (Ocean Press).

John McDermott
http://www.asiaphotos.net
John McDermott is an American photographer based in Asia for the last 12 years. After working as an editorial and commercial photographer in the US and Asia, he developed a fine art photography project focused on cultural heritage across Asia, documenting and portraying ancient sites and cultures that inhabit them at present. His work has been published in Time, Newsweek, Archaeology Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, and The New York Times. He has contributed to books including "A Day in the Life of Thailand", "The Extraordinary Museums of Southeast Asia", and "Southeast Asia - Passage through Time".

Marti Mueller
Marti Mueller is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, environmentalist, and social activist. She has spent a lifetime defending nature, spiritual principles, and the rights of indigenous people. Marti has received a Rolex citation for her work in environmental education. She was selected as an official speaker for the 2005 Universal Expo in Aichi, Japan as one of One Hundred People in the World Who Love the Earth. Marti's photos have been exhibited in London, Paris, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Tokyo, Phnom Penh, and Madras. Her work is part of permanent collections in several museums, including the Louvre in Paris. Her recent book on meditations on nature, This Earth of Ours, has a prologue by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Justin Mott
http://www.justinmott.com
Justin Mott entered the Journalism department at San Francisco State University in 2003, where he grew an affinity for photojournalism. In 2005 he traveled to Siem Reap, Cambodia to participate in the weeklong workshop with Gary Knight from VII. It was during this workshop where he discovered his passion for documentary photography and his fervor for documenting social issues in SE Asia. Domestically Justin has done freelance work for numerous Bay Area newspapers. Globally his work has taken him throughout SE Asia recently working with MSF (Medecins San Frontieres) documenting HIV and Tuberculosis patients and to Venezuela for a multimedia project for Global Exchange. As of October 2006 he joined the photo agency WPN and will based in SE Asia beginning December 2006.

Wawi Navarroza
http://wawinavarroza.multiply.com
Wawi Navarroza is a young Filipino artist who uses photography to depict the imaginary world behind her eyes where visions, observations, emotions, and thoughts crystallize into symbolic portraits and visual poems. Her works have been awarded in a number of occasions, such as: the Art Association of the Philippines (2000, 2003), and in "Con Otros Ojos" Barcelona, Spain (2000). In 2006, she received citation as one of the awardees for the Ateneo Art Awards, the Philippines' premiere gallery and museum of Philippine contemporary art. Her successful photo series entitled "Polysaccharide: The Dollhouse Drama" (2005) commenced its international tour; in Malaysia at the University Sains Malaysia Museum & Gallery and in the Netherlands for the Noorderlicht Photography Festival main exhibition entitled "Another Asia" at the Fries Museum. It continues its journey at the Angkor Photography Festival. Currently, she is at work on her next major solo exhibition for January 2007 at the Silver Lens Gallery (Manila).

Roland Neveu
http://bklink.blogspot.com/
Roland Neveu is one of the few reporters who witnessed the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975. For two decades, he covered hot spots like the first Soviet POW in Afghanistan, the siege of Beirut, war in Lebanon, El Salvador's bloody feud, the NPA struggle in the Philippines and the fall of its dictator, Ferdinand Marcos. He also photographed the first images of AIDS in Uganda, shot TV stories on Aids, the Touareg rebellion in Mali and Kurdish refugees (Turk-Irakian border). In the late 1980s, he began working on film sets as a stills photographer for directors like Oliver Stone, Brian de Palma, Ridley Scott and Matt Dillon, whose film, "City of Ghosts" was shot in Cambodia. Neveu's book, "Years of Turmoil", relates 30 years of covering Cambodia.

Liza Nguyen
http://www.liza-nguyen.com/
Liza Nguyen was born in France and splits her time between Paris and Dusseldorf where she followed Thomas Ruff workshop at the Fine Art Academy of Dusseldorf in Germany. Her work explores representation, memory and aesthetics: how to represent the past, how memory is built in the present and how to create the link between aesthetics and ethics. She has exhibited her work in Europe, Asia, Canada and United States. Her artist book "My father" received several awards in France, including "La Bourse du Talent" and is published by Schaden.com. "Souvenirs of Vietnam" received recently the "Prix Fnac de la Photographie" and won the International Biennial of Art of Lulea award in Sweden.

Patrick de Noirmont
http://www.onasia.com
Patrick de Noirmont is part of the group who created the photo-agencies AFP and Reuters. While based in South Africa and Southeast Asia for over 10 years, he covered the Russian troops' retreat from Afghanistan, the Gulf War in 1991, the transition of South Africa from apartheid to the election of President Nelson Mandela and the arrival of the Taliban in Afghanistan. This year, he worked on the consequences of the tsunami in Thailand for the German magazine Stern. He lives between Paris, where he works for AP, and Bangkok, where he is associated with Onasia.

Sudharak Olwe
sudharakolwe@yahoo.co.in
Sudharak Olwe was born on 1966. At twenty, with an urge to be divergent he realized that photography was his calling. For past 16 years Olwe has published cutting edge photo essays in India's leading publications while working for the Times of India in Bombay. He has exhibited work on social issues from India to Bangladesh, Sweden, Portugal and Holland. In 1999-2000 he was the recipient of the National Foundation Media Fellowship. In 2001, he was the only Indian photographer to be invited at “World Press Photo Exhibition”, for his stories on gender and the environment. In 2004 he published his book, “Spirited Souls: Winning Women of Mumbai”, last year he was honoured with the All Roads Photographers Award from National Geographic which included an exhibition of his work on street workers of Mumbai in Los Angeles, California and Washington DC. He is current at work on a book about Indian NGO. He is heading photography promotion trust, registered public charitable trust, based in Mumbai, India.ppt was form to support, showcase and encourage the use of photography as a powerful tool for social change.ppt conducts free workshop for children in order to give them a voice.

Sherman Ong
http://www.shermanong.com/
Sherman Ong is a photographer and filmmaker. Currently, his photographs are on a travelling group exhibition under the Goethe Institut ArtConneXions and in Another Asia, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Netherlands. His film works straddle both fiction and documentary, and have been exhibited in Europe, US, Brazil and Asia. His films have won awards in Hong Kong, Greece, Italy, Indonesia and Malaysia. He is an alumni of the 1st Berlinale Talent Campus 2003 and has premiered works at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Int'l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, International Electronic Art Festival VideoBrasil and the Yokohama Art Triennial, Japan. In 2004, he served as a jury member at the La Cittadella del Corto International Short Film Festival, Italy. He is an Associate Artist of the Substation (Singapore).

S. Smith Patrick
http://www.cinesmith.net
S. Smith Patrick is a documentary filmmaker whose projects focus on human rights and indigenous cultural issues. Her award-winning film “The Children of Ibdaa: To Create Something Out of Nothing” explores the lives of Palestinian refugee children who perform in a dance troupe to express the history and aspirations of the Palestinians in a non-violent way. Her current project, “Seeing Siem Reap”, chronicles Cambodia street children as they transform during a photography and dance workshop and explores the affects of tourism and colliding cultures that surround Angkor Wat.

Jack Picone
http://www.jackpicone.com
Jack Picone covered eight wars in the 1990s. He achieved some notable news coverage, and was particularly intent on capturing the plight of ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary violence in places like Yugoslavia, Somalia, Rwanda, Palestine, Liberia, Sudan and Soviet Central Asia. For the last decade Jack has been committed to documenting the pandemic of HIV/AIDS for the London-based Terence Higgins Aids Trust as part of the huge "Positive Lives" project. Now based in Bangkok, Jack works on global assignments. His clients include Time, Life, Liberation, Der Spiegel, Stern, Mare, L'Express, Colors, Tempo, Granta, Marie Claire, The Independent (UK), The Observer, as well as organizations such as CARE, ActionAid, MSF and others.

Vandy Rattana
vandyrattana@yahoo.com
Vandy Rattana is a young photographer, student at Panasastra University in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He has been part of the collective Four Cambodian photo exhibition at Popil PhotoGallery in December 2005, organized by Visual Arts Open, a project of Saklapel art association. Pictures shown here are extracted from his new essay — "Looking in the Office" — that he will exhibit at Popil PhotoGallery in November 2006. A selection of this exhibition will be shown at Siem Reap Photo Festival late November. Below you can read an extract of the artist statement for the show coming at Popil.

Jerry Redfern
Jerry Redfern is a freelance photographer based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Sometimes, you can even find him there. He generally works on features, documentary and wildlife stories in Southeast Asia, often working with his wife, author Karen Coates. OnAsia Images, in Bangkok, represents his work to the wider world.

Martin Reeves
http://www.thehiddenrealms.com
Martin Reeves, has been held by Asia in a spell for two decades. Being a passionate photographer he sought a film that could portray Asia as to how he had envisioned it, in an enchanted and mysterious way. His quest began in India in 1986, when he set out with some infrared b/w film. The images that appeared revealed a hidden realm. He became captivated, bewitched and intrigued by the notion of infrared light (which is invisible to the naked eye) manifesting into photographs. Its dreamlike look seemed to uncover a dimension that really does exist beyond the confines of our visual spectrum.

Dominic Rouse
http://www.dominicrouse.com
Dominic Rouse, his work is exhibited internationally. In 2002 he showed at the XII Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografia in Buenos Aires and also at the Benham Gallery in Seattle with Jerry Uelsmann. The same year he had his first London show and also exhibited at the Schneider Gallery in Chicago. In 2003 he had his first US solo show at the Carmel Center for Photographic Art and exhibited at the Honolulu Academy and FotoFest in Houston in 2004. He was awarded the Ultimate Eye Foundation grant in 2002 and in 2006. His advertising work has also won recognition at the International Digital Exhibition Awards (London1999 & 2000). In 2003 he won the 'Special Photographer' category in the first International Photography Awards (Photography's Oscars) in Los Angeles. In 2005 he was awarded first prize in The Photo Review's Annual Competition, a Gold Award by America's Black and White Magazine for 'The cunning of unreason', and was the winner of Artrom Gallery's International Digital competition in Rome and Los Angeles Center for Digital Art's International juried competition.

Eric Sander
http://www.ericsander.com/edition
Eric Sander, his work has been published in the world's most prestigious magazines : Time Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Figaro Magazine, Paris-Match, Grands Reportages, Geo. He grew up in France where he started his career as a photo Editor at Gamma photo Agency in Paris. In 1983, he chose to become a freelance photographer and soon after, settled in Los Angeles to follow his passion: cover in depth stories and portraits. In 2001, he came back to Paris to renew with his roots. While working on assignment for international magazines and corporations, Eric Sander concentrates his personal work on strong themes for the publishing world (6 books published in 2006-one on Cambodia) and international magazines.

Raffaela Scaglietta
Raffaela Scaglietta Italian photo-journalist and video-maker, based in Rome. She's working for various media including the Italian Tv Rai 3 for whom she is preparing a series of short investigative documentaries on home affairs and justice. She is also a contributor of Il Giornale and the Italian Vogue. Previously she was a correspondent from Tokyo for Ansa agency, covering Japan, South Korea and South East Asia. From Japan she was a contributor for Repubblica, Il Corriere della Sera, Panorama, Vogue and Diario. In 1999 she received a Fulbright Scholarship and went to New York to produce a film on anti-globalization and an art documentary Eye-link presented in Japan. From 1996 till 1999 she was based in Brussels where she was correspondent for Il Mondo, Il Corriere della Sera and the Italian tv Tmc covering European integration and corruption.

Uwe Schober
http://www.rupertbeagle.com
Uwe Schober is a self-taught photographer who will commence studying photojournalism and documentary photography at the London College of Communication from January 2006. Over many years he has attended workshops with distinguished photographers such as Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, James Nachtwey, Bruce Gilden, Bill Allard, Walter Schels and David Alan Harvey. He is working on a long-term photographic project on Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. He has just self-published his first photography book on Khmer Boxers.

Vincent Soyez
http://www.vincentsoyez.com/
Vincent Soyez is a French photographer based in New York. After working more than 10 years in Paris he moved to the United States to work in commercial photography. He shoots fashion, portraits, music album covers and contributes to magazines such as The Source, Zink, Complex, Interview, GQ, ESPN, FHM and Fortune. Recently he started to travel to Cambodia to develop a personal body of work that will be presented during the festival.

John Stanmeyer
http://www.viiphoto.com/
John Stanmeyer is a co-founding member of VII and a contract photographer with Time Magazine since 1998. Presently living in Indonesia, this American has spent over seven years focusing on Asian issues. Over the last five years, he has been working on a book about AIDS throughout Asia, while at the same time continuing his photographic documentation for another book on the radical changes in Indonesia since 1997. Stanmeyer has received numerous awards, including the Robert Capa, Magazine Photographer of the Year, World Press and Picture of the Year.

Dieter Telemans
http://www.dietertelemans.com/
Dieter Telemans was born and brought up in Burundi and is now based in Brussels, Belgium. He is a member of the agency Panos Pictures in London. Most of his work takes him back to his roots. He focuses on the positive sides of African countries that often only make our news in a negative way. He worked on the African music scene and published the book "Heart of Dance". Today he is documenting water-related troubles in the world. For this he covered water shortages in Shaanxi (China) and floods in Dhaka (Bangladesh). The exhibition "Troubled Waters" will travel around Europe, starting in the Belgian Parliament on World Waterday, the 22th of March 2007.

Andrew Testa
www.lightstalkers.org/andrewtesta
Andrew Testa was born in London, in 1965. He began his photographic career in the early 1990s working as a freelance for the Guardian and Observer newspapers. Throughout the decade he documented the growing Environmental Protest movement, the only major political movement during an era when politics on both the right and left became increasingly stagnated. In 1999 he shifted his attention to international current affairs covering the war in Kosovo and moved to the Balkans at the end of the year which he used as a base to cover events throughout Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East. He now splits his time between New York, London and Kosovo. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, The Guardian and The Observer and his work has been published in Newsweek, Stern, Geo, Mare ,Paris Match, Time, Der Spiegel, The Sunday Times Magazine, the Independent magazine, Mother Jones.

Hazel Thompson
http://www.hazelthompson.com/
Hazel Thompson is a British photojournalist based in London. Hazel now works freelance for editorial, commercial and charity assignments worldwide. Her reportage work centres around social issues, identity, religion and humanitarian subjects. With her images being published internationally in The New York Times, Time, Observer Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine, Days Japan, Sondag, Photo District News and more. Hazel has gained recognition for her work by winning a number of awards, most recently for her images of children illegally imprisoned in the Philippines called "Kids Behind Bars", winning The Observer Hodge Award and CARE International Award for Humanitarian Reportage at Visa pour l'image.

John Vink
http://www.johnvink.com/
John Vink studied photography at the fine arts school of La Cambre in 1968 and became a free lance photographer in 1971. He joined Agence Vu in 1986 and was awarded the E. Smith Prize that same year for his work Water in Sahel. Between 1987 and 1993 he worked on a project about refugees in the world, which was exhibited at the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris. He was nominated at Magnum in 1993 and became a member in 1997. He is now based in Cambodia, a country he visits since 1989. He has published "Refugies", "Avoir 20 ans a Phnom Penh" and "Peuples d'en Haut", a book about people with a strong cultural identity living in the mountains of Laos, Guatemala and Georgia. His latest book, "Poids Mouche", is about Khmer boxing.

Sophie Zenon
http://www.nazcapictures.com/
Sophie Zenon works simultaneously on personal work, commissioned assignments from the press or institutions, and exhibitions. She is interested in the relations between man and space, man and nature, man and the sacred. Her pictures of Mongolia, which she has visited yearly since 1996, won the Nomad Chronicles prize. This allowed her to photograph the fishermen from the Amour River (Far East Siberia), a project that focuses on the complexities of the relations between man and the river. With the assistance of the AFAA and the French Embassy, Sophie set up a photography cooperation project between France and Mongolia.

Laurent Zylberman
http://www.365degrees.org/
Laurent Zylberman started photography when staying in London for a French punk-rock magazine. Later on founded the Graphix-Images photo-agency in Paris. With an angle on environmental concerns, the human dimension of his work has come to prevail. Based in Taiwan for 5 years, then Mexico for a further 5, Laurent stringed for Sygma from 1981 to 1997. He has contributed to various local and international publications with wide-ranging topics such as the solar eclipse in Mexico, Kolkhozes in Turkmenistan, Vietnamese boat people, Muslim boarding schools in Indonesia, democratization in Mongolia and Alaskan oil-riggers. He is now based in Paris to work on/with segregated people, along at his daily photo diary.