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Matinee: 'Photographers of Paris -- VuThéara Kham'
1 March 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 593rd in our series of Saturday matinees today: Photographers of Paris -- VuThéara Kham.
This from 5:57 video Malcolm McLoughlin features VuThéara Kham who fell into photography as a way, he says, to keep himself busy.
He started with a iPhone 4 he bought from a coworker and the bright idea to take three shots a day, which he posted on Instagram where he was discovered.
He moved on from his iPhone to a Leica M9 he bought from a war photographer and a Sony Alpha 7 III but he kept photographing Paris as a way of representing himself. Without ever seeing his face, he says, people got to know him.
He had worked as a user experience designer where the phrase "What You See Is What You Get" became popular. And it's really the method he uses to photograph the city he calls his first country.
When something catches his eye, he tries to show it by pressing a button on a camera with a lens that matches what he is seeing in a scene.
In VuThéara Kham's case, at least, what you see is what you get.