John Frederick Norman Lewis (28 June 1908, Forty Hill, UK – 22 July 2003, Saffron Walden, UK ) was a British novelist and travel writer who had served in the Intelligence Corps in Algeria, Tunisia and Italy during World War II, and whose travelogue in Indochina, A Dragon Apparent (1951) gives his… Read more

Gustave Jean-Auguste Janneau (1843, Parthenay, France - 21 June 1872, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) was a French anthropologist, philologist and interpreter who left several unpublished manuscripts on Cambodian and Vietnamese languages and cultures, in addition to the first comprehensive study on the Khmer… Read more

Lia Genovese is an independent researcher specializing in the archaeology of French Indochina, the Plain of Jars and other megalithic expressions in Laos and the region. Her current projects include a critical biography of the French archaeologist Madeleine Colani.With a PhD from SOAS University of… Read more

Prof. Ramachandran Nagaswamy (10 Aug 1930, Madras, India -23 Jan 2022, Chennai, India) was an eminent archaeologist, epigraphist and historian, the first director of Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department, the founder of the Tamil epigraphic journal Kalveṭṭu, and a specialist in bronze statues and… Read more

Jules Ferdinand Marec (4 May 1881, Lorient, France - 13 March 1957, Saint-Sauveur-Sur-Ecole, Seine et Marne, France) was a French military cartographer and explorer who was the first to survey the site of Banteay Srei in January 1914, and sent two statues and stone elements from the temple to Phnom… Read more

Chhany Sak-Humphry is a Cambodian Associate Professor with the College of Arts, Languages & Letters, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA, where she coordinates the Khmer linguistics studies program: Modern Khmer Language (Syntax; Curriculum Development; Literature; Culture; Dictionary) and Old… Read more

Dr. Haraprasad Ray (1931, Dhubri, Assam, India - 21 July 2019, Kolkata, India) was an Indian scholar in Sino-Tibetan research who explored Chinese sources on South Asia history covering centuries till late 19th century.A professor at Calcutta University, India, from 1953 to 1956, he joined India's… Read more

Gerald Cannon Hickey (17 Dec. 1925- 10 Nov. 2010, Chicago, IL, USA) was an anthropologist who worked in Southeast Asia, primarily Vietnam. From 1956 through 1973, he conducted ethnographic research in Vietnam; during the 1960s his research was sponsored by the RAND Corporation. He built ties with… Read more

Sriranjani Srinivasan is an Indian practising architect, a professor of architecture in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, a researcher with the MEASI Academy of Architecture in Indian and Southeast Asian architecture history, an a Carnatic singer.Focusing on sustainable architecture, engineering and… Read more

Walter G. Langlois (1925, USA - 9 Nov 2020, USA) was a professor of French and historian of modern French literature, his primary area of interest concerning French writer and Culture minister Andre Malraux, about whom he published four books and established and edited two scholarly reviews. After… Read more

René Grousset (5 Sep 1885, Aubais, Gard, France  – 12 Sep 1952, Paris, France) was a French historian, curator of both the Cernuschi and Guimet Museums in Paris, a member of the Académie française and the author of numerous works on Asia and Asian art, as well as his two more commented books,… Read more

Dominique Darbois (5 April 1925, Paris, France – 6 Sept 2014, Paris) was a French photojournalist and author who became professional photographer in 1946, starting her journalism work in Cambodia. The lovechild of Philippe Stern and Madeleine Schawb -- a novelist publishing under the name Madeleine… Read more

BAKU Saito BAKU 斎藤 (b. 1948, Niigata Prefecture, Japan) is a photographer who has extensively covered Angkor temples in the 1990s. After entering Osaka Art School in 1966, he started working at New Photo Studio in 1970, and studied under photographer Miyashita Akiyoshi. He Established STUDIO BAKU… Read more

Jim Laurie is a former war TV correspondent who covered the fall of the US Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, on April 30, 1975, and covered Cambodia during and after the civil war, an experience at the core of his 2020 memoir, The Last Helicopter: Two Lives in Indochina. From 1972 to 2000, Laurie… Read more

Solange Brand (18 March 1946, Paris, France) is an independent photographer who captured the start of the Chinese Cultural Revolution on rare color photographs which found a renewed audience in China and abroad from 2002, when a slideshow of her work was exhibitied at Pingyao Festival. In December… Read more

Claudius Madrolle (22 July 1870, Dieppe, France – 16 June 1949, ?) was a French explorer in Africa and Asia, a cartographer and an editor of travel guides specializing in East Asia, who has been labeled as "a pioneer in colonial tourism." With the aim of emulating English-speaking guidebooks such… Read more

Léonard Eugène Aurousseau (12 Jul. 1888, Cannes, France - 24 Jan. 1929, Yerres, France) was a French sinologist, historian and archaeologist who was the Director of École française d'extrême-orient (EFEO) from 1926 to 1929. After studying Chinese language in Paris, he served in Indochina as soldier… Read more

Chan Vitharin is a Cambodian artist, professor and vice-dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Royal University of Arts (RUFA), Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the founder of Chan's Arts creative studio.He published an expanded edition of the reference book on Khmer ornament motifs, Kbach, in 2023. Read more

T. A. Gopinatha Rao கோபிநாத ராவ் (1872-1919) was an Indian archaeologist and (Tamil and Sanskrit) epigraphist who was appointed the first Superintendent of the Travancore Archaeology Department in 1908, and authored the monumental Elements of Hindu Iconography (Law Printing House, Madras, 4 vols,… Read more

Isabella Stewart Gardner (14 April 1840, New York City, USA – 17 July 1924, Boston, USA) was a leading American art collector, philanthropist, and an eclectic patron of the arts who founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, USA, in 1903, and visited China, Southeast Asia and Cambodia… Read more