Guy & Jacqueline Nafylian

Guy Mowgli Antoine Nafilyan (27 Nov. 1922, Paris 16 — 17 Jan. 2011, Sernhac, Gard, France) was a French architect and watercolor artist who worked with EFEO and the Angkor Conservation (Siem Reap) between 1961 and 1965, and later taught architecture and archaeology at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh from 1966 to 1972. He worked with the Survey Team in establishing new plans and maps of Angkor Wat and the Bayon.

With wife Jacqueline Nafilyan (b. Jacqueline Yvonne Thomy 11 Oct. 1924, Le Neubourg, Normandie — 21 Oct. 2019, Uzès, Gard, France ; they married in Paris on 27 Dec. 1960), Guy Nafilyan built a vast photographic collection dedicated to the Khmer temples. Some of their works, part of the EFEO Guy and Jacqueline Nafilyan Fund, are available online [heavily watermarked].

After the civil war, they worked together at documenting and photographying murals and paintings in Cambodian wats (monasteries), an important contribution to the preservation of the country’s cultural memory and heritage.

Publications

[with Alex Turletti, Mey Than, Dy Proeung, Vong Von] Angkor Vat, Description graphique du temple, Paris, EFEO, Mémoires archéologiques 4, 1969.
[with Christian Creysse & Jacqueline Nafilyan] L’art khmer en situation de réserve — Khmer Art in Reserve, Marseille : Editions européennes, 1997, 151 p.
[with Jacqueline Nafilyan] Peintures murales des monastères bouddhiques au Cambodge, Paris, Maisonneuve-Larose, 1997, 95 p..
[with Alain Girard & Jacqueline Nafilyan] Regards sur les temples d’Angkor, Pont-Saint-Esprit, Musée d’art sacré du Gard, 2008, 35 p. ISBN 2−910567−51−6.