I am a tourist (in Angkor)

– November 7, 2007

I had my series ‘Day Dreamers’ shown at the Angkor Photo Festival. As I was a tourist myself, I took the opportunity to shoot a series about tourists visiting the temples in Angkor… ‘I am a tourist’. This series was shot in 5 days, from sunrise to sunset. It was a kind of training for me, thinking of Martin Parr body of work entitled ‘Small Planet’ about mass tourism.

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About Eric Leleu

I have been living in China as a photographer for a few years. My brain is obsessed by concepts such as authority, consumerism, capitalism, geopolitics, sociology or urbanity... In a word, I am interested in our contemporaries (you and I) and the world as it becomes. My focus is the dynamics of public spaces: the interrelationship between the authority, the crowd and the individual. As for my eye, it is looking for colors and intensity. My dream is simple: having a few of my photos living longer than me...