Patrick de Noirmont is a veteran photographer and editor with more than 40 years experience with the wire services. He started with UPI and was involved in the teams that launched both the AFP and Reuters International Picture Services.

In addition to running various wire service bureaus in Paris, Johannesburg and Bangkok, he has covered numerous events including the Yom Kippur war in Israel, the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the arrival of the Taliban, the first Gulf War, and the end of apartheid in South Africa. Assignments sent him to Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire. In Asia, he witnessed the military advances of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the handover of Hong Kong, the coup in Cambodia and the fall of President Suharto.

Patrick is now based in Thailand where he has worked for the Rockefeller foundation and various NGOs. He has been part of the free educational workshop of the Angkor Photo festival since 2005.