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ARTIST
... a WANNABE ARTIST ! The next best thing... befriend these creative individuals.
I am a huge fan of Cambodian artists and envy the talents and creativity of Leang Seckon, Sopheap Pich, Reahu, Chhim Sothy, Chath pier Sath, Sacrava, etc. My brother Daravuth is not bad either. And the honorary Khmer, John Weeks, is illustrating tirelessly to educate the young using comics. On the vocal front, who can compare with the legendary Sin Sisamouth, jazz musician Prince Norodom Sirivudh, lyricist/singer Prince Sisowath Pannara, tenor Khuon Sethisak, rapper PraCh Ly, Dengue Fever... And need I say much about the award-winning filmmaker Rithy Panh and his talented niece Bosba Panh?!
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Cambodian Artists
The View - sensual apsara by controversial REAHU (also this site's excellent webmaster and Theary Seng's IT tutor).
Sopheap Pich's world famous installation.
Artist/Poet Chath pier Sath, Theary Seng at his solo exhibition. Packed house, including French Ambassador and wife (CCF, 28 Jan. 2010).
Artist/Singer Leang Seckon, Fleur and Theary Seng at the Cambodia International Film Festival, 28 Jan. 2010.
The brilliant humor of talented Bun Heang Ung (aka Sacrava).
In celebration of Jenny Bombasaro-Brady's birthday, Theary Seng with artist Daravuth Seng, filmmaker Marc Eberle, photographer Roland Neveu (FCC Phnom Penh, Dec. 2009).
Talented photographer Heng Sinith whistling at Bona's Memphis Pub (Phnom Penh, Oct. 2005).
Legendary Quincy Jones, tenor Khuon Sethisak, Theary Seng at DCM Mark Storella's residence (Phnom Penh, 2005).
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Non-Cambodian Artists
German film director Detlev Buck and Theary Seng at the after-party of Same Same But Different premiere (The Chinese House, 19 Dec. 2009).
In front of CINE LUX where SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT had its Cambodia premiere. Sok Leang, Theary Seng, producer Claus Boje, production designer Udo Kramer, Uncle Ani Seng from Toulouse, Daravuth Seng. (19 Dec. 2009, photo by Jenny Bombasaro-Brady).
Theary Seng enjoying dinner at a Phnom Penh beer garden with SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT crew (Marc Eberle, director Detlev Buck, producer Claus Boje, actor David Kross, etc.) and Marie Naumann of Jewish Museum (Berlin), a few days after premiere, 22 Dec. 2009.
Legendary actress Mia Farrow (Dream for Darfur) and Theary Seng greeting over 150 bulky armed military police with bouquets of lotus flowers as a crowd of journalists and Cambodian human rights community look on (at entrance to Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Jan. 2008).
Amazing singer and humanitarian, U2's Bono, and Theary Seng at press conference prior to P-8 Rock Concert (Rostock, Germany, June 2007).
The very talented and well-read Matt Dillon, Theary Seng, Michael Hayes and the all too-young staff of Ponlork Restaurant (Phnom Penh, Sept. 2007).
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Theary Seng's Calligraphy
My strand of claim to being an artist is my calligraphy of millennium ago.
The wannabe artist escapes often to Hotel Le Royal for receptions/meetings and the Elephant Bar, when Cambodia becomes too insane, to contemplate why she didn't take up the life of a calligrapher or a contemplative in South Africa's Drakensberg. (Dec. 2009, Roland Neveu).
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