Aurélie Fischer (b. 1984, Mons, Belgium) is a freelance photographer based in Cambodia since 2020. After hearing the "call of the East" in the 2010s, she visited Angkor for the first time in 2014, spent some time as a volunteer in the experimental city of Auroville, India, and photographed the huge… Read more

With a PhD in Asian and African Studies (2017) from Sapienza University, Roma, Italy, Paolo E. Rosati has published a double special issue on Tantra for Religions of South Asia (14/1–2) in 2020, and several contributions on the yoni cult at Kāmākhyā (Assam, India), the temple devoted to the Shakta… Read more

Dr. Adrien Louis-Marius Pannetier (1873, Bordeaux, France -19??), a French colonial administration physician ('médecin titulaire de l'Assistance médicale') in Cambodia in the years 1900s, undertook numerous linguistic, anthropomorphological, sociological researches during his stay in French… Read more

Self-taught archeologist, Guillaume Epinal (Le Mans, 1984) has developed his passion for "preventive archaeology" and ancient material cultures by volunteering on several archeological sites in France, Italy, Syria, and Southeast Asia. In Cambodia, his contribution to ceramology and pre-Angkorian… Read more

Prabodh Chandra (P.C.) Bagchi প্রবোধচন্দ্র-বাগচী (Bengali) (18 Nov 1898, Jessore, Bengal, British India (now Magura, Bangladesh) – 19 Jan 1956, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India) was a notable Sino-Indologist of the 20th century, and the third Upacharya (Vice-Chancellor) of Visva-Bharati University,… Read more

Keo Manivanna is a Laotian historian. We're looking for biographical information. Read more

Claude Jacques (1929, Marboz, France -2018) was a French epigraphist, archaeologist and researcher, the head of EPHE (IVe section) and special advisor to UNESCO for Angkor. For his effort toward the recognition of Angkor monuments as part of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage, King Norodom Sihamoni… Read more

Founder of Amazing Cambodia photo collection, with 60K followers on Facebook. Read more

Anton O. Zakharov (Антон O. Захаров) is a fellow researcher at Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, State University of Psychology and Education and Oriental University, Moscow, Russia. He is thre representative of the Russian Federation in the Board of the European… Read more

Steve McCurry (b. 1950, Philadelphia, USA) is a professional photographer whose work in rebel-controlled areas of Afghanistan prior to and after the 1979 Russian invasion -- including the iconic "Sharbat Gula, Afghan Girl"(1984), which was a National Geographic cover photo --, and again after the… Read more

Martin Polkinghorne is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Flinders University, Australia. Between 2011 and 2014, he led the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery project on pre-modern craft economies in Cambodia. This initiative discovered the first historic bronze foundry known in Southeast… Read more

Edith Mary Hinchley née Mason [also known as Ms. J.W. Hinchley] (23 Jan. 1870, Chelsea, London - 16 Oct. 1940, in The Blitz, London) was a British painter, genealogist, suffragist, and humanist who spent three years in Bangkok, 1904-1907.A noted student at the Royal College of Art, she met a male… Read more

A specialist in Southeast Asian Buddhism, Early Art and Archaeology studies, Nicolas Revire is post-doctoral research fellowship at the Art Institute of Chicago since early 2023, after lecturing at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, Thailand, and being a guest lecturer at… Read more

Indian Art historian Claudine Bautze-Picron has studied artworks in Bihar, West Bengal, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia, focusing on Buddhist iconography.A researcher with CNRS (France), she has authored books book on mural carvings and paintings at Pagan (Burma/Myanmar), and The Bejewelled Buddha,… Read more

Kim Chhay (1 Sept 1998, Phnom Penh) moved to Siem Reap in 2017, a step that encouraged him to further his taste (and skills) for photography. While he has traveled around Southeast Asia -- with Penang, Malaysia, as one of his favorite spots --, Kim remains focused on Cambodia's traditions and… Read more

Pierre Marie Alexis Dieulefils (21 Jan. 1862 - 19 Nov. 1937, Malestroit (Morbihan), France) extensively photographed Angkor and Cambodian scenes at the turn of the 20th century. Arrived in Tonkin as a soldier in 1885, he established his studio in Hanoi (61 rue Paul Bert) in 1888, with his wife,… Read more

Jules Marcel Brossard de Corbigny (14 Apr. 1841, Orléans - 14 Dec. 1934, Meung-sur-Loire, France) was a French Navy officer (lieutenant-de-vaisseau capitaine and contre-amiral) and cartographer, famous for his journey on elephant back from Saigon to Bangkok in Jan-Feb 1871, when King Norodom asked… Read more

Capitaine (Captain) Marie Joseph Auguste Baudesson (15 March 1867, Paris - ?) was a volunteer in the French army deployed in Tonkin, where he studied and photographed the Moi, the Cham and other ethnic minorities.An exhibition of his work, 'Two years among the Moi', was held in Hanoi in 1902.… Read more

Fujihara Sadao 藤原貞朗 is a Japanese historian specialized in the history of colonial Indochina. A professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Ibaraki University (茨城大学人文学部), he is the author of Orientalisuto no yūutsu. Shokuminchi shugi jidai no Furansu tōyō gakusha to Ankōru iseki no kōkogaku… Read more

Suzanne Karpelès (17 March 1890, Paris - 7 Nov. 1968, Pondicherry (Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Vellore), India) was an Indianist, ethnologist and philologist specialized in Khmer, Sanskrit and Pali languages, the first curator of the Phnom Penh Royal Library of Cambodia (nowadays National Library,… Read more