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Stephane Janin | Photographers
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THE SUBSTANCE BENEATH THE VISIBLE“The Substance beneath the Visible” project started in Cambodia in 2006. It is now continued in the United States. View the story |
Stephane Janin's biography
Stéphane Janin was born in France in 1968. He has photographed Cambodia Since the early 90s, visiting the country on numerous occasions, until he settled in Phnom Penh and live there permanently from 2004 to 2007. He emphasized on daily life activities, arts and culture.
Janin was the founder of the Popil PhotoGallery in Phnom Penh (2005-2007), the first independent art space fully dedicated to the art of photography, a space where he has organized a dozen of exhibitions of local and international photographers. At the same time, Janin taught photography to students in his gallery and to students of the Royal Fine Arts School and Department of Media and Communication, tutoring them to build their own body of work ("14 + 1" exhibition at French Cultural Center).
In September 2007, Janin relocated to Washington DC where he lived 3 years. From the USA, he has documented life stories of Cambodian American people: http://khmerabroad.blogspot.com .
From Cambodia and the United States, 2006 to 2010, Janin also explored an ancestral way of creating images, using boxes and black and white paper negatives to build "The Substance Beneath the Visible".
http://stephanejanin.com/public-html/media/SubstanceAmericana/index.html
http://stephanejanin.com/public-html/media/SubstanceCambodia2006/index.html
http://stephanejanin.com/public-html/media/SubstanceFrance2008/index.html
Since 2010 Janin lives in the South of France where he teaches art, media, culture and comunication for high school students.