EFEO digs up old snaps for photo festival

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Nicky Sullivan

With the 11th Angkor Photo Festival gearing up to showcase the work of 140 emerging and established contemporary photographers from more than 40 countries across Asia and the world, one of the most important exhibitions will feature the work of scholars, artists and devotees who long ago passed through the streets of Siem Reap and the galleries of Angkor.

A Journey Into 20th Century Cambodia Through EFEO Photographic Archives opens at the Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient on Sunday. It features more than 80 photographs taken by the archaeologists who worked to draw back the veils of mystery surrounding the temples of Angkor and Cambodian culture.

The focus of the exhibition though is not so much on the temples themselves, but on how the archaeologists and associates of the EFEO recorded their understandings of Cambodia, its people and their culture.

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