Angkor Photo Festival

I'm a few months behind with this story (better late than never, right?) but I've only just got around to reading my Canon Professional News e-mail from November last year.

The third Angkor Photo Festival took place in November 2007. It's an inspiring idea: photographers gather at Angkor in Cambodia to lead workshops with the aim of promoting photography in South East Asia. As well as catering for keen photographers, there are workshops for street kids and Canon have donated cameras to the Anjali Centre in nearby Siem Reap and the hope is that the children will work towards producing their own fund-raising book.

I remember seeing news of the festival last year and also in 2006 and it sounds like a fascinating project. Although the specific dates for 2008 are yet to be announced, I've pencilled in some free time for November in the hope of participating.

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