SUNDAY 6 | The scenes from Phnom Penh Streets revel in the everyday details of life, the ubiquitous urban streetscapes that typically whiz past at the speed of a carefree moto. Old men play unfamiliar board games. A young man buys a bowl of noodles from a roving street seller. A motorcycle repairman relaxes against a cacophony of spare parts. The exhibit represents the work of photographers Jeff Perigois and Jason Waste, working under the rubric Downtown Collective. In all, 30 prints were selected from a trove of more than 400 images. Perigois works in sepia tones, Waste in black and white. Like the old repairman with new tyres to sell, Phnom Penh Streets peddles goods of similar import. In a young girl’s eyes we are made to consider biographies we’d might rather dismiss. In the grin of an old man we find humanity. And if we’re lucky, maybe more.
WHO: Downtown Collective
WHAT: Phnom Penh Streets photo exhibition opening
WHEN: 6pm April 6
WHERE: Equinox, #3a Street 278
WHY: Examine life in close-up