It’s an honour for Lumiere Café to host an exclusive exhibition featuring 40 photos by Roland Neveu for our guests to admire, running from the 19th November until the 19th December 2026.
Roland Neveu
French Photographer
Biography
Roland Neveu (1950, France) is a French photographer and photojournalist whose career spans more than five decades. He gained international recognition for documenting the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975 and covering major conflicts across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Since 1986, he has also worked as a still photographer on major Hollywood productions, including Platoon, Rambo III and Thelma & Louise.
His Art
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.
BTS on the Movies in Cambodia
Go Behind-the-Scenes on Cambodia Films with Photographer Roland Neveu
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
Angelina Jolie on the set of First They Killed My Father (2017).
Haing Ngor on the set of The Killing Fields (1983).
Stellan Skarsgard at Boker during Coty of Ghosts (2002).
The “gang lords” scene in a Kampot karaoke bar. City of Ghosts (2002).
Lumiere Artists
At Lumiere Café, you can discover a rotating collection of works featuring a diverse range of different artists.
