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

Francois Pierre Sauvaire Comte [Earl] de Barthélémy (10 May 1870, Paris, France - 28 Oct. 1940) was a French explorer and writer who headed the Mission Barthélemy to Laos in 1894-6.After overtaking a trip around the world in 1892-3, he joined the French Army in then Indochina, assigned by the… 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

Mike Carson is an Associate Professor of Archaeologyresearcher at the Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam at Mangilao, USA. Read more

Stephen A. Murphy is historian of art and archaeology specializing in early Buddhism and Hinduism in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Malaysia, Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art at SOAS, University of London. He particularly studies the period spanning the… Read more

Claude Jacques (1929-2018) was the head of EPHE (IVe section), and special counselor for Angkor with UNESCO. Epigraphist and researcher, he has been an indefatigable force in the recognition of Angkor monuments as part of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage. King Norodom Sihamoni recognized his… 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

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

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

Kirit Mankodi (b. 1940) is an Indologist and professor of Archaeology specializing in tracing looted or illegaly purchased looted Indian artworks. After receiving his M.A. and Ph.D. in Archaeology from Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Poona University, he worked at the American… Read more

Tyson Royal Roberts (b. 1940, USA) is an American ichthyologist and environmentalist. He has been described as "the world's foremost authority on Regalecus." Roberts attended Stanford University (USA), where he earned his B.A. in 1961 and a Ph.D. in 1968. He won a 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship in the… 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

Dr. Ronald M. Davidson is a professor and researcher in religious studies at Fairfield University, Connecticut, USA., focusing on the social and intellectual aspects of Buddhism in Asia, primarily the Mahayana Buddhist ritual and its crossover into early tantrism in India, from the fifth to the… Read more