Angkor Discoveries…
I mean the discoveries I made and kinda’ liked during the three days I was in Siem Reap, the city of cultural mass-tourism and grinning crocs, for the Angkor Photo festival which goes on for a couple more days…
During three projections I saw:
Rasel Chowdhury (Bangladesh)- Life on Water: quiet, washed-out (what else?) colour photographs of the insidious rising of water levels in rural Bangladesh.
Sayed Asif Mahmud (Bangladesh)- Tobacco Tales: strong and freewheeling Moriyama-ish black and white photographs on the tobacco industry in Bangladesh.
(What is it with Bangladesh photographers anyhow? Is there a good one behind every corner?)
Natela Grigalashvili (Georgia)- A Georgian Village: Intimacy as I like it, unpretentious and beautifully composed black and white images of rural Georgia, a country dear to my heart.
Exhibition:
Yusuf Cevincli (Turkey)- Post: The catalog says ‘he does not look at; he experiences’. Which is OK if you are visually gifted. He seems to be.
Informally:
Sheila Zhao (China)- Work in Progress: she seems to constantly be on holiday and comes back with dreamlike photographs.
