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

George D. Bonnyman (?-?) was a British Navy officer, Captain of the brig Pantaloon when the ship was commissioned for a commercial exploratory trip to Cambodia and Siam in February-June 1851, and again in September-November of that year.Little is known of him, except that he left notices on the… Read more

Lim Bunhong (b. 4 May 1983, Siem Reap) is a Cambodian independent photographer who has extensively covered the teamwork on the conservation of Angkor Archaeological Park monuments as a technical officer at the Department of Monuments Conservation, APSARA Authority since 2020.With a MD in Education… Read more

Sakphearoth (1997, Siem Reap) has been extensively traveling across South East Asia and Cambodia since her childhood. After working in advertisement photography, she's developing her own photographic style and skills. Read more

Researche at CERPP (Université Toulouse le Mirail) and IRSEA-CNRS (Marseille, France), Didier Bertrand has devoted three years of field work studying the practices of Cambodian mediums and kru (healers). An ethno-psychologist and a Doctor in Intercultural Psychology, Didier Bertrand has also… Read more

Alfred Salmony (10 Nov 1890, Cologne [Köln], Germany - 29 Apr 1958, Atlantic Ocean, heart attack aboard Ile-de- France ocean liner) was a museum curator and professor specializing in East Asian art, art of the Eurasian steppes, and Chinese jades, who also studied Southeast Asian art during his long… Read more

Maurice Robert Fievet (or Fiévet) (20 Aug 1921, Montana, USA -1995, Islas Baleares, Spain) was a visual artist, photographer and avid traveler who envisioned with 'extraordinary accuracy', according to many contemporary scholars, the daily life in Angkor at its peak in a series of striking… Read more

Colonial engineer and amateur photographer Jules Agostini (1859, Arbarella, Corsica -1930, Nice, France) has traveled extensively in the Far East, including Cambodia.His fame as a photographer came to the headlines when unknown photos of French painter Paul Gaugin and some of his Tahitian models… Read more

Pech Tum Kravel ពេជ្រ ទុំក្រវិល (1943, Kandal- 2015, Phnom Penh) was an actor, writer, and the director of the Dance Department at Royal University of Fine Arts. He is the author of more than 20 books and essays on Cambodian culture and art, in particular at theater and dance. Born Chhorn Tort (ឈន… Read more

26 December 1896 (1896-12-26) Metaramba, Galle, British Ceylon Occupation Archeologist and an Epigraphist Books Ceylon and Malaysia, SinhalayoSenarath Paranavitana, CBE (Sinhala:සෙනරත් පරණවිතාන) (26 December 1896 – 4 October 1972) was a pioneering archeologist and epigraphist of Sri Lanka. His… Read more

After becoming a Doctor in Indian Studies at Université Paris III -- his thesis dealt with the Religious and Secular Organization of the Khmer Temples between the 7th and 13th centuries --, Dominique Soutif joined the EFEO Siem Reap Branch in 2009, which he supervised until 2019. An… Read more

Head Curator of Musée national des Arts Asiatiques Guimet (MNAAG, Paris), Pierre Baptiste is in charge of Southeast Asian arts at the museum since 1996. An art historian, Pirerre Baptiste has taught at École du Louvre (Paris) and at the RUFA Faculty of Archaeology (Phnom Penh). He also supervised… Read more

A Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University, Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion, and a Research Associate with the Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (FSGA), Nancy Beavan has explored several Cambodian sites as a investigator and… Read more

A self-made art collector and a Portuguese writer who has explored Oriental mysticism and esoterism, Francisco Capelo (1955, Lisbon) founded in 2001 the Museu da Marioneta (Museum of Puppetry) in the Convent of Bernardas, a rich collection of Asian and African masks and theater puppets, and one… Read more

Ellen Hsieh 謝艾倫 is an Assistant Professor at National Tsing Hua University, Institute of Anthropology (Taiwan) specialized in History of maritime trade and Southeast Asia.A research associate to the National Museum of the Philippines, her PhD dissertation considered Early Spanish Colonialism in… Read more

Isabelle Massieu (born Bauche, 3 Apr. 1844, Paris - 7 Oct. 1932, Paris-Suresnes) was a French traveler, writer and photographer, who was one of the first Western women to visit and write about Angkor (in 1896), the first French woman to travel to Nepal and Laos, and an outstanding observer of Asian… Read more

David Olyphant King (1828, Newport, Rhode Island, USA - 1862?, American Civil War in Virginia), D.0. King, was an American businessman and traveler who gave a published account of Angkor and the Cambodian royal court at Oudong in 1859. D.O. King -- he was given the name of a close associate to his… Read more

Seng Sonetra was Acting Dean and Lecturer of the Department of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh before undertaking the MA programme in History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS University of London in 2018-19. She has conducted several archaeological excavations of prehistoric… Read more

Frédéric Gas-Faucher (1876, Marseille, France - 25 Feb. 1939, Marseille) was a French educator traveler whose relation of Cambodia in the 1910s, En sampan sur les lacs d'Angkor et du Cambodge (1922), has been consistently quoted and referred to. From his book, we know that his interest for Cambodia… Read more

Laurie Woolever is an American writer and editor, and spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she coauthored the cookbook Appetites in 2016. She has written about food and travel for the New York Times, GQ, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, Saveur, Dissent, Roads & Kingdoms, and… Read more