About

Bruno L’HOSTE

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A respected photographer based in Asia (Siem Reap - Bangkok - Kathmandu), Bruno L’Hoste especially enjoys exploring and photographing less-traveled areas, avoiding the typical tourist destinations. He takes particular interest in the indigenous peoples and traditional and tribal cultures of developing nations, and in documenting these disappearing cultures.

Bruno L’Hoste is also a humanitarian photojournalist specializing in the photographic documentation of relief efforts and development work of NGOs and International organizations (EU, UN) worldwide. Over the last twenty years, Bruno L’Hoste has worked and travelled in many countries, covering stories from Haiti to Cambodia, through East Timor, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Palestine, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast and more...
He has published 2 photography books on Cambodia and his photographs have appeared in many magazines and newspapers.

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​Who I am....
 

I was born a photographer and always liked colorful images. When I was 12, the photography shop around the corner hung one of my picture on the window, without asking me, I was so proud of it.
I stayed an amateur photographer until I was 36 years old. Then as a California resident, I decided to be more serious about it and take classes at the nearby College of the Redwood in Fort Bragg. I did so for 5 years and learned everything possible about cameras, darkrooms, film, light and other photographers.
It was a wonderful time of my life and I enjoyed so much my work that I opened a small photography gallery in the town of Mendocino. It was successful and gave me the occasion to meet many artists and well-known photographers.

Back to France, some years later, I published postcards and free-lanced for a few newspapers and magazines.
In 1995, I moved to Cambodia and did some extensive photography work for international NGO’s, UN and EU, documenting their projects there. Having assembled thousands of interesting pictures of the country, I opened the first stock photography agency in Cambodia and participated at the composition of many brochures, calendars, advertisements and various local publications.

In 2000, I switched to digital photography (I had studied Photoshop since the school in California but it was difficult to make the actual move, change all the material and my way of working). The first few years were a bit difficult as the quality of the digital images was not so good but now that technology has bypassed most of the pixels problems, no one can see the difference and I find digital art work a lot more creative and fun than old style photography.

I am often traveling all over the world trying to capture the best lights, the best subjects or the most interesting situations where I could practice my art.

I am still living in Siem Reap (Cambodia) where I am in charge of a Yoga and Meditation retreat center (check www.angkorzen.com)

 

Bruno L’Hoste

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