Auckland Festival of Photography presents a selection of photojournalism direct from Angkor Photo Festival and Workshops, one of Asia’s most respected photographic events and a pivotal part of the Asia Pacific Photoforum network.
Established in 2005, Angkor Photo Festival and Workshops is the longest running International Photography Festival in Southeast Asia and aims to provide more opportunities to view and exhibit high quality photographic work.
The selection showing in this year’s Auckland Festival of Photography has been specially programmed to form part of the Truth & Fiction theme and is curated by Francoise Callier.
Photographers on show - all work on display information sheet: Angkor Photo - Festival Text
Hossein Fatemi (Iran) An Iranian Journey
Vincenzo Floramo (IT) Trans Pakistan
Eduardo Garcia (Cuba) The Wall of The Wonders
Sam Harris (AUS/UK) The Middle of Somewhere
Steve Hart (USA) 'A Bronx Family Album:
The Impact of AIDS
Boryana Katsarova (Bulgaria) Freezing
Pascal Maitre (France) Magical Kinshasa
Mikolaj Nowacki (Poland) Odra
Aujin Rew (South Korea) Where we Pray/In a Private Moment
Rubén Salgado Escudero (Spain) Solar Portraits
345pm Mon 1 June: TALK - Mikolaj Nowacki discusses his project Odra where he explores the river area of his youth and his work with local barge operators that capture traditional life in Poland in a contemporary photographic setting. Silo 6, Wynyard Quarter. Bring warm coats and scarves, limited heating and seating.
