Dr. MAK Phoeun ម៉ក់ ភឺន (b. 1940) is a Cambodian historian who publishedd numerous articles and books on pre-colonial Cambodia, in particular in the 16th-18th centuries, and a reference study on the Khmer Royal Chronicles.From 1975 on, he conducted with Cambodian scholar Khin Sok studies,… Read more

Sok Keo Sovannara is an archaeologist and independent researcher who has taken part in several research missions with the Nara Research Institute for Cultural Properties (Japan) and the Apsara National Authority. Specializing in ancient ceramics and kiln sites, Keo Sovannara was also involved in… Read more

Oknha Suttantaprījā [Sothnpreychea] Ind សុត្តន្តប្រីជាឥន្ទ (22 July 1859, Rokar Korng Village, Kandal Province – 8 Nov. 1924, Battambang) was a Cambodian monk and writer whose work is considered as "pivotal" in the Cambodian literature transitional period between tradition and modernity. His stanza… Read more

Born in Goteborg (Sweden), Anders Jiras was a successful commercial photographer in his hometown when he was invited to cover a South East Asian Dance Festival in Singapore, in the 2000s. After extensively traveling through the region, he decided to focus on Cambodia and settle in the Kingdom of… Read more

"Teacher, artist, learner". Founder of the Digital Imaging Project--MAS/BC, Bluffton University, Ohio, USA. Read more

Author of popularization history and geography books, Vera Yakovlevna Kolokolnikova (Колокольникова Вера Яковлевна), was a 'very prolific and popular published author in Moscow at the turn of the century', to quote the document 'Russian Female Writers'. Among her books registered at the Russian… Read more

Eleanor Mannikka lived and taught in Venezuela for many years before locating permanently in Michigan, where she teaches Southeast Asian art at the University of Michigan. She published her first work on Angkor Wat in 1976, coauthored an article in Science magazine, and has had her work featured on… Read more

Robert Dalet was an archaeologist, photographer and explorer who discovered numerous artefacts dating from the pre-Angkorean and classical periods across Cambodia in the 1930s and 1950s. Briefly mentioned as an EFEO 'correspondant bénévole' (unpaid correspondent) by Louis Malleret (and registered… Read more

Charles Meyer (12 March 1923-2004) was a French historian, Orientalist, teacher and unofficial diplomat who lived in Cambodia from 1946 to 1970 (out of "25 years in Indochina", according to his laconic biography), was at the time the PR adviser and close counselor to HM the King Norodom Sihanouk… Read more

As an archaeological scientist and conservator Dr Anna Bennett is particularly interested in the services which can be offered to art specialists in caring for their valuable collections. An important facet of this work involves authenticities and the management of collections. She has been called… Read more

Sunil Gupta is an Indian archaeologist and researcher, and the Director of the Allahabad Museum, Allahabad, India. His PhD thesis in 1998 (Deccan College Postgraduate Institute, University of Pune, India) was titled: ‘Roman Egypt to Peninsular India: Archaeological Patterns of Trade, 1st century BC… Read more

Yvonne Schultz (18 June 1889, Paris - 25 March 1977, Nice) was a French writer and woman traveler who set several of her novels in Vietnam and, Cambodia, including Les Fiancés d'Angkor (Louis Bellenand et fils, coll. "Jeunes femmes et jeunes filles", 1928 and 1932) under the pen-name Dyvonne (she… Read more

Tan Sri Loke Wan Tho 陸運濤 (14 June 1915, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, British Malaya - 20 June 1964, Taichung, Taiwan) was a Malaysian-Singaporean business magnate in the nascent film industry, an ornithologist, and a gifted photographer. The founder of Cathay Organisation in Singapore and Malaysia, and… Read more

Joan Lebold Cohen (b. 19 Aug 1932, Highland Park, Illinois, USA) is an American freelance photographer, curator, and researcher in Asian art history. A regular visitor to Asia since 1961, Cohen lived in Japan, Hong Kong, and China, where she was a witness to the post-Cultural Revolution period from… Read more

Christophe Gargiulo (b. 19 Sep 1962, New Caledonia) is a film director, photographer and writer based in Cambodia since 2005, who has worked on and produced numerous films, TV programs and documentaries on cultural and ecological issues for the NGO Agir pour le Cambodge, WorldFish and the European… Read more

Pitchaya Soomjinda พิชญา โสมจินดา is Associate Professor of Art History, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. A former student of Achan Piriya Krairiksh-- a pioneer in Thai arts studies -- at Thammasat University, he focuses on Khmer art and iconography, and on the premodern and transitional periods of… Read more

Thierry Bayle (b. 27 Feb. 1959, Paris) is a French former journalist, a writer, teacher, and currently cultural attaché at the French Embassy in Thailand since 2020..In addition to various publications in French print and audio media (Libération, France Culture, Globe-Hebdo, Lire, Créations,… Read more

Course Director at Benaras Hindu University, Mumbai, Swati Chemburkar studies the interconnection between Khmer arts and Indian civilization.An architect and historian, she teaches Southeast Asia art history at the Jnanapravaha Institute in Mumbai. Swati Chemburkar has done several field researches… 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

Henri-Antoine-Marie-Joseph-Anatole Brenier (16 Aug 1867, Shanghai, China - 18 Feb 1962, Marseille, France) was a French journalist, economist, explorer, colonial administrator, merchant and writer who authored several studies on commercial exchanges with and from French Indochina in the 1890s,… Read more