Philong Sovan Sold at Auction Prices

Philong Sovan (b. 1986) 9 P.M, Siem Ream, 2010

Born in 1986, Cambodia, Philong Sovan is an independent professional photographer working and living in Phnom Penh. He began, in 2009, as a press photographer and soon joined the staff of The Phnom Penh Post and then worked for some months with the Xinhua News Agency in 2011 until 2012. Besides covering the news, Philong has developed several personal projects, especially those he developed with “Studio Images” of the French Cultural Center and were exhibited during the Phnom Penh Photo Festival. After a year of studying in France with the support of a grant from French government at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumiere, where he discovered analog photography and trained in different technical aspects of printing, he went back to Cambodia at fall 2013. He actually teaches, works on assignment and develops new photographic projects. His personal photographic series and his short videos are more and more important in the development of his practice of images. Recently, his work was published in Gala Magazine, The Guardian, Le Monde Magazine, L’EXPRESS style, Internazionale Italy Magazine, Globe Magazine, L’OEIL de la photographie portfolio, De l’air, IMAGES and The Phnom Penh Post. He is represented by Galerie Lee in Paris and Batia Sarem Gallery in Siem Reap.