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Pha Lina

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Born in 1986 in Cambodia, Pha Lina became interested in photography after attending a workshop held in the orphanage where he was living. He took up photojournalism, working first for the French daily Cambodge Soir, then The Phnom Penh Post. He went on to do work of a more personal nature, with a more symbolical tonality, as well as a focus on subjects from Cambodian society.

In this series, Pha Lina did portraits of the members of six families he met in Ratanakiri. All, in their daily occupations –hunting, fetching water, working in the rice paddy, cooking– find themselves strangely wrapped, tied up, in a meter of yellow ribbon that prevents the subjects from moving or interferes with their movements. Pha Lina was touched by the stories of these men, children and women that live in and from the forest, who respect it and know it intimately, but who are seeing it gradually disappearing at the whim of changes in the land ownership system and massive deforestation. He thus depicts through photography a testimony to their daily grind and future struggle, through a metaphor bearing the stamp of bitter poetry.

FESTIVAL
Photo Phnom Penh 2013
November 30 – December 31, 2013
http://www.institutfrancais-cambodge.com

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