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Greg Mo

Greg Mo: The Colour Dreamer of Asian Streets by Jerome D. This article contains sponsored links, I might earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Introduction Greg Mo (b. 1981, Paris) is a self-taught French street and conceptual photographer based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Over the past fifteen years, he has built one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary Asian street photography — colour-drenched, surrealist in feel, and composed with an architect's sense of balance and geometry. His images of India, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Burma, and China feel pulled from a dream: vivid, layered, intriguing, and always slightly strange. Mo moved to Asia in 2008 during a six-month trip that became the starting point of his practice. He first came to broader attention with Sleep in Cambodia , a book documenting people sleeping in the streets of Phnom Penh in improbable positions, which appeared in 2011 and launched his more serious professional work. His l...