Aurélie Fischer, a Photographer in Residence in Kep to Capture the Rainy Season
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Since 6 July, Belgian photographer Aurélie Fischer has been staying at Knai Bang Chatt, in Kep, for a one-month residency organised by Art for Kep. Through the monsoon season, she explores the connections between landscape, labour and identity.
A Month in Kep to Capture the Monsoon
Art for Kep, the artist residency programme at Knai Bang Chatt, in Kep, welcomes a new arrival this week. Aurélie Fischer, a Belgian photographer who has lived in Southeast Asia for several years, is settling in the coastal town for a month with a clear goal: to build a body of images around the Cambodian monsoon, somewhere between documentary observation and visual poetry.
Her project in Kep is built around reflections, silhouettes, gestures and the particular light the rainy season brings. Rather than photographing the monsoon as a simple weather phenomenon, she intends to immerse herself in local communities to explore what this climate shapes: the rhythms of work, repeated gestures, the memory of a landscape moulded by water. For her, landscape is never neutral: it carries the traces of those who inhabit and work it.
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