Photographer Agnès Dherbeys: A Relationship with Photography, Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2012

Agnès Dherbeys considers late to photography because it wasn’t very important in her household. She speaks about her experience as an adopted child and not having access to the photographs of her biological family. In her experience, much of her past is concentrated solely on an ophanage ID portrait that shows her as an infant. She also believes that her relationships to snapshots changed once she became a professional photographer, but she does find the thought of lost family photographs sad and moving.

Agnès Dherbeys is a Bangkok-based 35-year-old French photographer. She graduated with honours from the Master of Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Politics) of Lyon and from master 2 of Sciences of Information and Communication from Celsa, Sorbonne IV. She learned photography when she moved to Bangkok in 2001, and has since mainly focused her work in Nepal, East Timor, Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand, with some parentheses in the Palestinian Territories/Israel.

Her 2010 coverage of the Red Shirts unrest in Thailand last April and May 2010, was exhibited at the Bangkok Art Cultural Center in RUPTURE exhibition, curated by Olivier Pin. With this body of work, published in the New York Times, she recently was awarded THE ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD of the OPC, for “Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise”.

Dherbeys is currently photographing French band Limousine recording of their Third album, immerged in the universe of Molaam music in North East Thailand. The project is funded by l’Institut Français, Agnes B, Factory Festival, among others.

http://www.agnesdherbeys.com/

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