Bophana Center, in Phnom Penh, has an exhibition of Jean-Michel Gallet’s Cambodia photos.
“Jean-Michel Gallet came to Cambodia for the first time in 1990. From France, but not to make pictures. To study, as the representative of a N.G.O, the feasibility of projects in agricultural matters in a devastated country.
But beyond the obvious difficulties and traumas that the Cambodians had then to face, Jean-Michel Gallet became quickly aware of the reality of a Khmer Nation and Culture and of its hopes of resilience. Hopes that the smiles of its inhabitants and especially of its children expressed at the best.
Even if he is not a professional photographer, Jean-Michel Gallet then focused his photographic activity to this topic: to show the vital steadiness of the Khmer Nation and Culture. And his hope is now to invite you to share this topic.
Jean-Michel Gallet spent most of his life in many countries around the world. A life that consequently led him to accumulate thousands and thousands of pictures. Most of them therefore concern South-East Asian countries (Cambodia, Laos, Viet Nam and Indonesia)”
Many of the photos are published on Bophana’s website.