Miguel Lopes Jeronimo
Miguel Lopes Jeronimo (Portugal, 1987) is a freelance photographer, curator, writer and artist based for nine years in Phnom Penh, with more than 80 exhibitions in Cambodia — including solo and group shows on topics such as environment, social inequality, gender, disability and human rights. With a background in robotics and emotions in artificial intelligence, he’s passionate about photography and working with NGOs on projects with impact, collaborating with other artists and creating art shows with meaning. For more info, please visit his website and Instagram.
Title: 01 / Coming of age (I can smell you in colors)
Description: a photo-poem addressing finding ourselves and take an active role in creating our own hope.
Title: 02 / Ancestral Futures
Description: a photo from a community art project painting Sak Yant protection tattoos on trees with an indigenous Kui community in Preah Vihear, with the hand seen here being from the local animist healer who came to bless the trees with Buddhist monks. Hopeing for a better future also involves going back to our traditions and connection to nature, merging ancestral practices with a vision to move forward that is more holistic and compassion to all that is non-human.