before the curtain calls
beauty and the pigs
one who is content
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pale woods
median
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SIDE QUEST 1
SIDE QUEST 2
Bio
Ponita (b.1991) is a Cambodian documentary artist, a label with a different meaning depending on the day. Her personal work is an ever-changing, ever-confused hybrid of documentary practice and everyday observation, often exploring soft control and personal agency.
Ponita also freelances as a photojournalist, and art director.
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. Group Exhibition, Home Is Where We Feel We Belong, Hiroshima House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
. Solo Exhibition, The hair between us, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore.
. Artist Talk: On Kinship and Hair, in conversation with curator Syaheedah Iskandar, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore.
. Feature article (photography), "The cambodian women who refuse to keep the fires inside", HaRDStories.org
2025
. Recipient, 8th Objectifs Documentary Award, Open Category.
. Public Exhibition, Visualising Climate Crisis, Saigon Riverside Park, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
2024
. Artist Talk, Paris College of Art, Paris, France.
. Nominee, Leica Oskar Barnack Award, Beauty and the Pigs.
. Group Exhibition, Visualising Climate Crisis, Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
2023
. Panelist, Framing the Future: Photography's Impact on Climate Change Awareness in Southeast Asia, Asia-Europe Cultural Festival, Singapore.
. Film Installation, Foujita Foujita (artistic consultant), European Heritage Days at L'Air Arts Cité Falguière, Paris, France.
. Selected for Noor Images Visualising Climate Crisis Southeast Asia Mentorship Programme, Hanoi Vietnam.
. Shortlisted, Portrait of Humanity Vol.5, British Journal of Photography.
2022
. Graduates Exhibition, Magnum Gallery, Paris, France.
. Official Selection, Cambodia International Film Festival (CIFF), People Grow Wings, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.