''Cambodia'', bursts of images: Collective exhibition at the Sra’Art Gallery
- Editorial team
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On the occasion of the 16th edition of the Photo Phnom Penh festival, the Sra’Art Gallery dedicates its major end-of-year event to a collective exhibition simply entitled Cambodia, a word that resonates here as a promise of encounters and visual stories.
Located in the heart of Phnom Penh, Sra’Art is not just a gallery but also an exhibition space, a residency, and an artistic collective that has faithfully supported the festival for several editions. From November 18 to December 24, 2025, its walls bring together eight photographers from Asia and Europe, invited to compose a multiple portrait of the country, between memory, spirituality, and contemporary changes.
The exhibited works dialogue between temples and modernist buildings, neighborhood pagodas and community places, lively alleys and open landscapes, revealing what continues to shape Cambodia’s collective identity.
Some series focus on architectural and historical heritage, others on the intimate relationship between inhabitants, the land, and elements, from rice farmers to artisans, from the river to remote villages. Through craftsmanship, familiar objects, repeated gestures, the photographers show how Khmer spirituality unfolds in the ordinary, from incense threads to the light passing through a workshop. Work scenes, rituals, and moments captured in the street invite interpretation of Cambodia’s soul through its culture, art, and history while offering glimpses of ongoing social and urban transformations.
Miguel Jeronimo (Portugal)
Photographer, author, and Portuguese exhibition curator Miguel Lopes Jeronimo has been based in Phnom Penh for several years, where he has signed numerous exhibitions dedicated to the environment, social inequalities, gender, disability, and human rights.
With a visual language mixing documentary and poetry, he seeks to reveal the invisible stories, fragilities, and resistances crossing contemporary Cambodian society. His practice, nourished by collaborations with NGOs and cultural structures, is committed to making photography a space for dialogue and awareness.
Walter Koditek (Germany)
German urban planner and photographer Walter Koditek has established himself as one of the major explorers of modern architecture in Asia, documented through long-term research and reference works.
After working as an urban planner in Europe and then Southeast Asia, notably Cambodia and Vietnam, he has devoted several projects to the built heritage of Hong Kong and Bangkok, blending photography, urban history, and development policy analysis. His view of Cambodia highlights architecture as a mirror of aspirations for independence, modernity, and national pride from the post-independence years to contemporary recompositions.
Bunsu Souen (Cambodia)
Cambodian photographer based in Phnom Penh, Bunsu Souen develops work rooted in urban daily life, between spontaneous portraits, street scenes, and nightly atmospheres.
Active in the local creative scene and collaborating with various structures, he captures youth, social spaces, and the micro-gestures that shape a constantly reinventing Phnom Penh with great closeness. His approach, both direct and sensitive, gives the city an intimate dimension, far from tourist clichés, focusing on how inhabitants appropriate spaces.
Dylan Rubis (Cambodia)
Based in Phnom Penh, John Dylan Rubis explores the city through photography that plays with light and symbols, as evidenced by his series of Buddhist figures bathing in golden halos.
His images, often made in temples, alleys, or places of contemplation, compose a visual meditation on spirituality and the sacred in everyday Cambodian life. By blending architectural details, reflections, and silhouettes, his work offers a contemplative reading of the capital, between fervor and silence.
Roberto Crucitti (Italy)
Italian photographer based in Phnom Penh, Roberto Crucitti roams Cambodia by motorcycle, from the capital’s alleys to the most remote villages, collecting fragments of life and landscapes.
His work sits at the crossroads of reportage and travel photography, attentive to faces, work gestures, the warmth of meetings, and contrasts between ancient temples, lush fields, and galloping urbanization. Engaged in the local artistic scene, he organizes exhibitions and solidarity events, using imagery as a lever for awareness and support for communities and the environment.
Pavel Lipski (Belarus)
Portrait and life-scene photographer Pavel Lipski (also active under the Anglophone form Lipsky) has shaped an aesthetic marked by natural light, which he has mastered for over three decades.
With international experience, editorial commissions, and personal projects, he develops an intimate approach to portraiture, seeking less the pose than the moment of truth, often in very soft chiaroscuro. His work in Cambodia follows the same search for proximity with his subjects, inscribing faces in their social and cultural environment.
Conor Wall (Ireland)
Irish photographer Conor Wall co-authored with Hans Kemp the book Carrying Cambodia, dedicated to the extraordinary creativity of cargo and transport in Cambodia, between precarious balance and everyday inventiveness. Through this long-term project, he traveled the country’s roads to capture overloaded trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles, transforming this culture of mobility into a fascinating theater of colors, materials, and movements. His gaze, both documentary and playful, highlights the ingenuity of inhabitants and the vitality of Cambodian street life.
Kol Vicheka (Cambodia)
A rising figure in the Cambodian cultural scene, Kol Vicheka is involved in numerous artistic and curatorial projects, between exhibitions, residencies, and regional cooperation initiatives. His photographic work and involvement in organizing events make him a key player in the dynamics linking young creators, institutions, and international networks.
By participating in Cambodia at Sra’Art, he continues the process of circulating images and ideas, serving a multiple contemporary Cambodia in dialogue with the world.
A meeting with contemporary Cambodia
By bringing together these eight perspectives, the Cambodia exhibition at the Sra’Art Gallery offers much more than a simple selection of images: it composes a sensitive mosaic where heritage, spirituality, modernities, and desires for the future intersect. Included in the Photo Phnom Penh 2025 calendar, it offers the local and international public a rare opportunity to explore, in a single place, the thousand and one ways to see and tell the kingdom. From November 18 to December 24, 2025, Sra’Art thus becomes one of the epicenters of the photographic season in Phnom Penh, a space where one enters to see images and leaves with stories.