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Phnom Penh of the Future

Marylise Vigneau

Delhi Photo Festival

Delhi Photo Festival
New Delhi, India

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  • Title: Phnom Penh of the Future
  • Creator: Marylise Vigneau
  • Date: 2015
  • Photographer's site: www.marylisevigneau.com
  • Photographer: Marylise Vigneau
  • About the series: In April 1975, the city of Phnom Penh was falling, emptying of its inhabitants. A spell of death, destruction and terror followed. Forty years later the scars are barely visible on the outside. Peace seems to be well established, and under the iron fist of the prime minister Hun Sen, the city is booming. The skyline is rapidly changing, the post-independence heritage is getting destroyed, and scaffolding is ubiquitous. Workers are moving in from the provinces and building landscapes of columned mansions, fountains and manicured gardens. Satellite cities are mushrooming, and these gated communities epitomize the aspirations of an emerging middle-class. There is recklessness in the air, a very palpable thirst for a modernity that appears to be built on layers of oblivion. Oblivion of history, oblivion of the squalor that lies just two steps away from the golden decor of the latest Karaoke bar; as well as an enduring poetry.
  • About the Photographer: Raised in Paris, Marylise Vigneau, studied Comparative Literature, but photography became the language of her life’s journey. During the past 8 years, she has been documenting life in Asia focusing on cities and on what time, development and isolation do to them. She visits the periphery of our habitats in search of the fragile beauty of human existence with its desires, humour and abysses. She plays with opposites, absence and presence, emptiness and fullness, isolation and multitude, fondness and irony, the near and the far, the inner and the strange. Her work has been shown in Angkor Photo Festival, Foto Istanbul, Yangon Photo Festival, Focus Photography Festival (Mumbai) and has been published in PIX Quarterly (India), Asia Life and Milk (Cambodia).
  • #DPF2015: 2015

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