Swiss photographer Hannes Schmid is regarded in Western art, fashion, film and entertainment circles as a legendary photographer and photo-artist whose work is sought after for its visceral candour.
He started out in the early 1970s documenting cannibal folk culture in the remote jungles of Irian Jaya (now known as Papua) in Indonesia.
After creating an exhaustive body of work ranging from photography to oil paintings spanning almost half a century, the 78-year-old is now pouring everything he has into what he says is probably his “last project” – The Gong, billed as Cambodia’s biggest music and cultural centre.
