Fray Gabriel de San Antonio (1565?-1608) was a Dominican priest who wrote about the expansion of Spanish colonial endeavors in South East Asia, and counted among the first European visitors to Angkor. Hailing from the nobiliary, he studied theology in Ocaña and Salamanca Dominican convents before… Read more

Born in 1957 in Phnom Penh, photographer Dunnara Meas was 18 when the Khmer Rouge coup d'Etat forced him into exile, in France.Renowned still photographer for feature films and theater performances, he came back to Cambodia in order to cover the shooting of Rithy Panh's Les gens de la rizière (Rice… Read more

George Groslier [kh ហ្សក ហ្រ្គូសលីយេ, jp ヂョルヂュ・グロスリエ] (4 Feb. 1887, Phnom Penh - 16 June 1945, Phnom Penh), the first child with French citizenship born in modern Cambodia, was an artist, novelist, historian, archaeologist, ethnologist, architect, photographer, and the founder and curator of the… Read more

David Brotherson has been conducting research in Cambodia since 2009, settling in Siem Reap in 2011. A member of the Greater Angkor Project (Archaeology research program and international collaboration between the University of Sydney, Cambodia, and France), he has conducted fieldwork and… Read more

Auguste Pavie (31 May 1847, Dinan, France - 7 June 1925, Thourie, France) was a French explorer, administrator and diplomat who extensively explored the lands of Cambodia, Lao and Siam in the 1880s and 1890s.His interest in local cultures and traditions brought him to collect folktales, manuscripts… Read more

Patmawan Buranamat (Bangkok, 1979) studied English and English Literature, graduating in South East Asian studies at Chulalongkorn University. In 2005, she attended the conference on "Contemporary Research in Pre-Angkorian Cambodia" held at the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) in Siem Reap. She is… Read more

Stylist, model and muse born in the Dominican Republic, citizen of the world.From Lily's website: "Along a life path that has taken her around the world, she has perfected her own style, a mix of global cultures and the avant garde, often dominated by her favored black." Read more

Raoul Marc Jennar (6 July 1946, Mont-sur-Marchienne, Belgium) is a researcher and consultant in international relations who has advised the Cambodian government during the post Khmer-Rouge transition period (1989-1999), and again since 2016 as Diplomatic Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs… Read more

Jana Igunma is Ginsburg Curator for Thai, Lao and Cambodian at the British Library, London, UK. After graduating from Humboldt University Berlin with a MD in Southeast Asian History in 1996, she worked in various research and cataloguing projects in Germany, specializing in Thai, Lao, Cambodian and… Read more

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

Cambodian travel blog launched in 2018 by Avy and a team of wanderlust-stricken young professionals. Read more

A former president of Sophia University (Tokyo), archaeologist and historian Yoshiaki Ishizawa 石沢 良昭 (b. 19 Sept. 1937, Hokkaido, Japan) has spent many years on the field, actively involved in the restoration and preservation of Angkor Wat, where he was the head of the International Mission on… Read more

The son of Gaspar do Couto and Isabel Serrão Calvos, Diogo do Couto (Lisbon, 1542- Goa, 1616) studied Latin and Rhetoric at Saint Antão College, and philosophy at the convent at Benfica. In March 1559, he traveled to Portuguse India with the Armada of Pero Vaz de Sequeira, took part in the Surat… Read more

Michael Smithies (1932 - 2 Jan. 2019, Bangkok) was a British historian based in Bangkok, a translator of numerous texts on Siam and Cambodia from French into English - in particular studies by French archaeologist Jacques Dumarcay, Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h and Bernard-Philippe Groslier in modern… Read more

C.R. Boxer (8 March 1904, Isle of Wight-27 Apr. 2000, St. Albans, GB), legendary Far East researcher and scholar, was the chief of British Military Intelligence services in Hong Kong during WWII. His interest in Dutch and Portuguese maritime expeditions during the XV and XVI centuries led him to… Read more

In May 2019, AngkorDatabase and Archimages Cambodia started a fruitful collaboration aimed at making an impressive iconographic fund easily accessible to researchers and all Angkor lovers. Since the 1990s, librarian-editor Jean-Jacques Donard and photographer Philippe Bataillard have been… Read more

Auguste Achille Hippolyte Filoz (4 Nov. 1832-?) was a French Navy officer specializing in molding who took part in the 1873 Mission Delaporte and became a member of the "Société des Orientalistes" (Orientalist Society) after his journey through South-East Asia.Traveling along Etienne Aymonier, he… 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

Born in Ireland, active in Celtic studies, Aedeen Cremin moved to Australia in the 1970s where she lectured in architecture at University of Sydney and Canberra. With degrees from Universities of Ireland, Strasbourg and Sydney, she specialized in landscape archaeology, especially in North Portugal… Read more