Biography

Simon Toffanello is from the UK. He was trained as a black and white darkroom technician before he went on to study filmmaking and fine art at St Martins College of Art in London. On completion of his degree in 1993 he went on to make award winning short films that played at film festivals in Europe and the UK before concentrating on stills work.

After a several months trip around South East Asia in 2000 he returned to Cambodia in 2002 where he has since covered a broad range of commercial photography in the studio and on location as well as NGO and travel projects out in the field.

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Nicolas Axelrod is based in South East Asia since 2008. Before moving to Cambodia Nicolas was living and working in Perth, Western Australia as a Freelance Photographer as well as for a Perth based commercial photography agency. With experience in many fields of photography, he moved to Phnom Penh to work as a freelance photographer.
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Ryan Plummer is a Canadian formerly based in Phnom Penh working as a Fashion, Editorial, Lifestyle and Documentary Photographer for SE-Globe Magazine. Ryan has worked throughout the Kingdom of Cambodia on numerous and diverse photographic assignments. He is now continuing work with Khmer communities in Vancouver and Montreal, Canada.

His photographic works are created in a visceral and stylized documentary
form, incorporating unique and contrasting features from various rural and urban environments.
http://www.ryanplummer.com

Mak Remissa is regarded as one of the most successful Khmer photographers of his generation and credits his first and third places in the National Photojournalism competition in 1997 held by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club and chaired by Phillip Jones Griffiths, as a major catalyst in his career. Currently working as a photojournalist for the European Pressphoto Agency(EPA), his work is often seen on the international news wires. He’s also utilised Phnom Penh galleries like Popil and Java and the Angkor Photography Festival to showcase his 2005 fine art photography exhibition, titled after a traditional Khmer proverb: “When the water rises, the fish eats the ant; when the water recedes, the ant eats the fish.”
Born in 1970, Remissa and his family were evacuated from Phnom Penh five years later by the Khmer Rouge and relocated in Takeo province. He graduated in Fine Art and Photography at the Royal Fine Arts School in Phnom Penh in 1995 and his work soon appeared in numerous publications such as Cambodge Soir, Phnom Penh Post and for Reuters and other organisations. Remissa has exhibited his fine art photography in Cambodia, France, Canada and the US, and after spending a few years in Canada, he’s now returned to live and record events in the country of his birth.

Born 1980 in Kerala, India, He 
started his photography career as a staff photographer for Outlook news magazine, a leading newsmagazine in India. 
 
Srikanth kolari's photography focuses on a wide range of social, political and economic issues such as the struggles of seasonal migrant workers, children in India, AIDS sufferers and their families, sex workers … 
 
His work is exhibited in India and Italy.

Born 1971, Peter Harris spent his childhood in western Massachusetts. It was during his youth that images from the Vietnam War, through to the Gulf War, had a haunting effect on him and were instrumental in his resolve to become a photographer.
In 1994, previously a self-taught photographer, Peter began working as an assistant to commercial photographers in Boston. Although promising, the photo business began to lose its glamorous appeal and after several years, it was time to take a break.
Harris worked for eight years as an IT specialist for computer giants like Hewlett Packard in France, an experience that has provided vital computer skills, an asset in the digital age of photography and web design.
After 5 years in Paris, he moved to Rome to re-launch a career as a freelance photographer with a reportage-flair. Peter’s first foreign assignment was to cover emergency earthquake relief efforts in northern Pakistan conducted by the UN World Food Programme in 2005.
In recent years Harris has covered the international mourning at the passing of Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, revisited, a year later, the devastating earthquake affected areas that left millions homeless in Pakistan, the forced evictions and relocation of poor communities in Cambodia, and the border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia.
Peter has been a freelance photographer since late 2005, devoting himself to documenting the development work of non-governmental organisations and wider social issues. He has worked on a number of photographic projects in Thailand, China, Mongolia, France, Italy, Tunisia, and the United States.
On his way to Cambodia in 2007, he attended the much talked about Bangkok Photo Workshop. A “motivating” experience led by photography celebrities David A. Harvey and James A. Nachtwey.
Since basing himself in Cambodia, Harris has had several solo and group exhibitions. In November 2008, Peter became one of the founding photographers to join Asia Motion. In addition, he is initiating an educational program for NGO staff and is currently continuing his efforts to document the affects of development in Cambodia.
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An experienced photographer in Cambodia ,Isabelle Lesser is someone who holds the camera with passion and fun. Currently specializing in Press and Social photography,(isabelle produced many different photo assignments for a variety of NGO's) Isabelle Lesser is also adept with Fashion and specific commercial photography projects.

Isabelle Lesser is an independent photo-journalist based in Phnom Penh Cambodia since 2003. Her photographs from events in Cambodia, South East Asia have appeared in publications including The Bangkok Post, The Wire Magazine, Cambodge Soir, The New York Times, the Boston Globe and several local American newspapers.Isabelle Lesser worked with the biggest international photo agencies like AFP and AP. Isabelle have extensive experience with transmitting photos and reports from remote location and to collaborate with clients based in Europe, Asia and the USA.
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Stéphane Janin was born in France in 1968. He has photographed Cambodia Since the early 90s, visiting the country on numerous occasions, until he settled in Phnom Penh and live there permanently from 2004 to 2007. His emphasize is on daily life activities, arts and culture.
Janin was the founder of the Popil PhotoGallery in Phnom Penh, the first independent art space totally dedicated to photography where he has organized a dozen of exhibitions of local and international photographers. At the same time, Janin taught photography to students in his gallery and to students of the Royal Fine Arts School and Department of Media and Communication, tutoring them to build their own body of work.
Since September 2007, Janin is based in Washington DC. From the USA, he documentes the life stories of the Cambodian American communities.

You can see Janin's work at:

http://www.stephanejanin.com

http://khmerabroad.blogspot.com

http://www.thesubstancebeneaththevisible.com

contact: mondolkiri@hotmail.com

Carlos FRANKLIN
Colombian visual artist. He studied Fine Arts in Colombia and he specialised in video and multimedia. He finished in 2008 a master in Arts and Technology at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des arts contemporains in France. All the ways countries appropriates and hybridises the image, culture and technology productions inspires Franklin. In his latest work architecture and language (voice in specific) take an important place. His projects develops drawing, installation, photo and video.
http://mistercarrot.free.fr

Born in France in 1965. Self made autodidact, Victor worked for almost 20 years as a light designer & photography director.
Victor had a master 2 degree in computer and arts science in France Lyon 2 University 3 years ago.Victor worked 10 years ago in Vietnam for 2 years, then worked for 7 years in west Africa, and nowadays lives for 2 years in Cambodia.
Corolleur worked also all around Europe and Canada for many years for special events, fashion shows, contemporary dance and theater. His latest projects includes developing light design, sound design, installations, photo and video.

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Julien Poulson has many years experience working in creative
arts roles with a particular focus on music and media. Julien has
worked as a photographer, political cartoonist, graphic designer,musician, filmmaker, and arts administrator. Julien has twenty years experience in the Australian music industry as well as strong interests in film, visual and media arts (and their convergence points).
Julien has toured with rock bands in Australian and USA,devised and managed music festivals, worked with boards, committees and membership-based organisations,implemented industry programs, managed an independent record label and published magazines including founding 3PBSfm’s Easey Street magazine. He currently works with The Green Mist – a Tasmanian based collective with members of The Violent Femmes and The Beasts of Bourbon.
In 2007 Julien released two albums through his Mistophone Records. Rolling Stone Magazine said of The Green Mist’s debut Next Stop Antarctica “…while the names are impressive, what’s more so is the quality of the music, which is inky and sombre but still possessed of a relentless energy... seemingly disparate parts coming together to form a very impressive whole.” 4 Stars.
As a young student, Julien travelled to the Philippines as a guest of League of Filipino Students and spent time working as a photojournalist. Since this time, Julien has often travelled and worked abroad - producing animation in Hong Kong and more recently a feature length documentaries on subjects ranging from Balinese youth culture through to transgender lives in Istanbul, Julien has continued to seek opportunities to further his career in arts and media with a particular focus on working in the Asian region.
In 2007, received an Asialink residency and spent three months in Cambodia working with Khmer musicians to record new music. Early in 2009, Julien returned to Cambodia to begin writing and researching a film
project The River Flows Backwards and was offered a residency at MetaHouse, Phnom Penh, to continue developing his work. In 2009 Julien toured Europe working both as a musician and as a filmmaker. This year, Julien was awarded The Alcorso Foundation’s prestigious Italian Arts Residency and will spend three months living in Venice for the purpose of creating music and text for a Western titled Muskito.