Roland Neveu: BTS on the movies in Cambodia | Photography Exhibition Opening Day

​BTS on the Movies in Cambodia
Lumiere presents

​📅 19th November 2026
📍 Lumiere Phnom Penh

​Agenda

• ​6:00 PM – 6:30 PM – Guest Arrival

• ​6:30 PM – 6:40 PM – Opening Remarks by Lumière

• ​6:40 PM – 7:30 PM – Roland Neveu – Artist Talk: his career, photography and behind-the-scenes stories from three films in Cambodia

• ​7:30 PM – 7:40 PM – Official Exhibition Opening

• ​7:40 PM – 8:30 PM – Exhibition Viewing & Networking

• ​8:30 PM onwards – Drinks & Social Gathering

​Go Behind-the-Scenes on Cambodia Films with Photographer Roland Neveu

Roland Neveu, renowned French photographer, has spent the last 50 years photographing conflicts all over the world. He is one of a select number of foreign photographers to have documented the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge on 17 April 1975. But he has also put his photographic talents to work on some of the greatest films of recent decades as a set photographer. Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Sylvester Stallone, Matt Dillon… They have all appeared in front of Neveu’s lens.

Lumière presents BTS at the Movies in Cambodia, an exhibition featuring iconic images from three films on which Roland Neveu served as set photographer, including The Killing Fields, City of Ghosts and First They Killed My Father. Featuring the off-screen actors, the crew, the locations, the staging and the atmosphere, all the photos offer an intimate reality behind-the-scenes with these three major film productions, all of which tell stories set in Cambodia.

This exhibition explores what happens beyond the big screen and takes viewers behind-the-scenes to understand the making of a movie. Many different skillsets are at work during a film shoot, and on set, standing on the shoulder of the director and cinematographer, will be the stills photographer, documenting the making of the film. Working alongside the crew, the stills photographer creates a visual record of the film’s journey, producing images for promotional purposes and to preserve timeless memories of the production.