Cambodia in the Sixties

American Michael Vickery – who died on June 29, 2017, of a heart attack at the age of 86 in Battambang Province – wasn’t a photographer but an historian and researcher really in love with Cambodia. He photographed in square format and in black and white daily life and traditions in the country during the sixties. His approach, at the same time documentary and full of tenderness and poetry is a precious testimony about the country at the period. Portraits, traditions, especially in villages and in isolated areas are documented with a strong relationship with the people he photographed. Exhibited for the first time, those images are part of the memory of Cambodia. (Bophana Center)