Christophe Loviny

Yangon Photo Festival / Artistic Director

Christophe Loviny, 63, is a French writer and photographer who co-founded the Angkor Photo Festival and then created the Yangon Photo Festival in 2008, the largest photo event dedicated to human rights in the world, with more than 800,000 visitors in 2020.

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Loviny is also the director of PhotoDoc. The organization has trained a whole new generation of award-winning photographers to document and advocate human rights, social justice and environmental issues. Their powerful photo-stories and short documentaries are reaching millions on Myanmar Stories, a breakthrough community magazine on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/myanstories/vidéos/