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

Chen Neak ចិន្ទ នាគ (29 Dec. 1946, Kompong Cham Province - 2 Sep. 2011, unknown) was a speak-theater professor, a writer and a member of the Research Committee on Culture and Arts at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts (MCFA).Chen Neak was born into a poor peasant family in Kampong Cham province,… 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

Photographer Laurent Weyl (b.1971, Strasbourg, France) has worked extensively in Asia, especially in Vietnam where he lived from 2011 until 2016. He specializes in social-ethnological reports, for instance on global refugee populations and ethnic minorities. A member of the Collectif Argos, he has… 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

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

Dr. Brigitte Borell-Seidel is a independent researcher associated with the Institute for Classical and Byzantine Archeology, University of Heidelberg, Germany, who lived several years in Southeast Asia. She has extensively studied glassware and artefacts from Ancient China and Southeast Asia, and… Read more

Shao-yun Yang (b. Singapore) is an Associate Professor of East Asian history at Denison University, USA, with his research including ethnocultural identities, foreign relations, and cross-cultural interactions in medieval or "Middle Period" China (broadly defined as 200-1600 CE). With a B.A. and… Read more

General Léon de Beylié (1840, Strasbourg - 1910, Tha Dua Pass, Laos) was a French colonial military officer as well as a tireless archeologist and collector of Islamic, Byzantine, Hindu and Buddhist art. His sum on Hinduist architecture (L'Architecture Hindoue, Paris, 1907) includes important… Read more

Georges Louis Condominas (29 June 1921, Haiphong – 17 July 2011, Paris) was a renowned cultural anthropologist.A specialist of South East Asia (his mother had Chinese, Vietnamese and Portuguese roots, his father a French navy officer), he has been described as the 'Proust of ethnology'. His field… Read more

Specialized in pre-Thai polities, archeologist and art historian Pierre Dupont (1908, Paris -1955, Bangkok) has particularly studied the Mon kingdom of Dvaravati which predated the Sukhothai, Chiang Mai or Ayutthaya kingdoms that thrieve between the 13th and the 15 centuries. First at École du… Read more

A Professor at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO, Paris), Michel Rethy Antelme (មីស្ហែល ឫទ្ធី អង់តែល្ម) is a linguist, translator and historian specialized in Ancient and Modern Khmer. He has taught translation and linguistics in Cambodia, authored several… 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

Colleena Shakti is a sacred dance performer based in Rajasthan (India) and Greece.As a teacher, founder of the Shakti School Dance, and as a performer wishing to bring together yoga practice and entertaining folk or court dance, Colleena has been a major actor on the Rajasthan cultural scene,… Read more

Pierre Grison (?-Dec. 1985) was a freelance researcher and sinologist who spent seven years in the Far East after World War II, studying countries, men, civilisations and doctrines, and publishing contributions on topics as diverse as Buddhist art, Chinese secret societies, the Caodai sect in… Read more

Ingrid Muan (1964, Virginia, USA - 30 Jan. 2005, Phnom Penh) was a Doctor in Art History, an art teacher, and a passionate researcher on Cambodian traditional and modern arts since 1994, when she moved to Cambodia. Her PhD dissertation is “Citing Angkor: The “Cambodian Arts” in the Age of… Read more

Thun Theara (Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia) is an historian researching the cultural and political history of mainland Southeast Asia. After graduating from the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) in 2008, he received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to pursue an M.A. in Southeast… Read more