William Robert Moore (15 Aug 1899, Butler Township, Michigan - 22 March 1968, Washington, DC, USA) was a staff photographer and writer at the National Geographic during four decades, and the chief of the foreign editorial desk at the magazine .With a predilection for Asia, where he started to work… Read more

薄琳 BO Lin is originally from Hanshan, China and has lived in Cambodia since 2015. Two years after she graduated with a degree in law, she decided to focus on business and ran her own coffee shop at a university in Beijing. After moving to Cambodia, she began teaching Chinese, working as a… Read more

教授 (Jiaoshou, Professor) 段立生 Duan Lisheng (1944, Dali, Yunnan Province 大理市 云南), a descendant of the Duan Royal Family of Dali, is distinguished scholar in history of art, Siamese and Thai cultures, Southeast Asia and world architecture. Graduated from Beijing University in 1967 after studying… Read more

Pierre Benoit (16 July 1886, Albi – 3 March 1962, Ciboure, France) was a French novelist, screenwriter and member of the Académie française. Mostly known for his second novel, L'Atlantide (1919), that inspired several feature movies, he became a roving reporter in 1923 and visited various… Read more

Pascal Médeville (b. 8 Dec. 1962) is a professional translator and a writer specialized in Chinese civilization and language.After studying Chinese and Khmer at INALCO Paris, and spending ten years in mainland China and Taiwan, he relocated to Cambodia, where he leads a professional agency and… Read more

Srong Channa (ស្រុង ចាន់ណា) is the founder of the online platform 5000 Years (៥០០០ឆ្នាំ), dedicated to make accessible important documents on Theravada Buddhism and Cambodian culture. The site was founded in 2011 with the approval of the Cambodian Ministry of Cult and Religion, and shares… Read more

Raymond Cauchetier (10 Jan. 1920, Paris - 22 Feb. 2021, Paris) was a self-taught photographer whose work, intimately vinculated to Angkor and Asia, is recognized as one of the major testimonies on culture and arts in the 20th century. As a stillphotographer, he also make live for ever actors and… Read more

Didier Fassio is a film director and writer, and a TV producer, who authored films about Angkor, in particular Le secret des temples d'Angkor (1996) and Angkor, l'aventure du Baphuon (2009). Read more

An Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, USA, Alison Kyra Carter researches the political economy and evolution of complex societies in Southeast Asia. Other research interests include the archaeology of East and South Asia, materials analysis and… Read more

One of the first French planter and breeder in Cambodia, Octave Vandelet (1848?, Paris - 30 Sept. 1912, Phnom Penh) started to reside and work in Cambodia as early as 1872. A close confidant of Kings Norodom and Sisowath, Vandelet was the delegate for Cambodia to the Conseil Supérieur des Colonies… Read more

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863, Avon, France – 31 Oct. 1931, Paris) was a professional French explorer, photoengraver and photographer whose photographs of French Indochina and Cambodia were widely published, often without his knowledge.In 1874, the young Jules moved to Algeria with his mother… Read more

Joseph Gervais alias Alfred Raquez (1 June 1864 (?), Dunkerque - 9 Jan. 1907, Marseille, France) was a prolific writer, photographer, traveler and editor who vividly described China, Laos, Cambodia, Siam, Annam, and Java at the turn of the century.Declared bankrupt in March 1898 after some… Read more

Doctor in Archaeology, director of the International Archaeological Research Institute (IARII, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA), David J. Welch has particularly studied the archaeological evidence of Khmer settlements and state organization in Northeastern Thailand. With its laboratories in Hawai'i and Guam,… Read more

Lim Sylvain (1951, Kep, Cambodia) has developed since his childhood a passion for Khmer traditional dance and the Apsara costumes of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia. He'd always remember that, visiting one uncle in Battambang when he was around 7, and asked what present would please him most, he… Read more

A Doctor in Archaelogy and Environmental Sciences, Thonghlit Luangkhoth is the head of the Department of Heritage, Ministry of Information Culture and Tourism, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic.As an associate researcher with the University of Melbourne, Australia, he joined several… Read more

Prince Esper Esperovich Ukhtomsky (князь Эспер Эсперович Ухтомский, 26 Aug. 1861, Orianenbaum, Imperial Russia – 26 November 1921, Detskoe Selo) was a poet, publisher and Oriental enthusiast in late Tsarist Russia. He was a close confidant of Tsar Nikolay II and accompanied him when we as Tsarevich… Read more

Nikolay Mikhailovich Przhevalsky or Prjevalsky (Никола́й Миха́йлович Пржева́льский, 12 April 1839, Kimborovo, Russian Empire – 1 Nov. 1888, Karakol (nowadays in Kirghiztan)) was a Russian Imperial geographer and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia who tried to locate the main springs of… Read more

Marie de Ujfalvy-Bourdon (18 Jan. 1842, Chartres, France - 31 Aug. 1904, Firenze, Italy), and her spouse Károly Jenő Ujfalvy de Mezőkövesd, also known as Charles Eugene de Ujfalvy (1) (16 May 1842, Székelykövesd/Cuieşd, Transylvania – 31 Jan. 1904, Firenze, Italy) were pioneer travelers who… 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

Prince Konstantin Alexandrovich Viazemsky, Князь Константи́н Алекса́ндрович Вя́земский (1852, Ратмино-Ratmino, Russian Empire -1903, Святая гора Афон-Sacred Mount Athos, Macedonia) was a Russian traveler, botanist and aristocratic 'enfant terrible' who visited China, Southeast Asia and Cambodia in… Read more