“Empowering Communities Against Racism: Asian Canadian Photography Exhibition with Demos, Workshops and Talks” | Asian Heritage Month Photography Exhibition by Award-Winning Asian Canadian Photographers
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Exhibition at City Hall Rotunda
Date: April 28 to May 4, 2025
Venue: City Hall Rotunda, Toronto, 100 Queen Street West. Google map of event venue.
FREE ADMISSION
Curator: Mr. Tam Kam Chiu
Her Worship Olivia Chow at the Opening Ceremony of the Asian Heritage Month Festival (Photo by Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto)
Her Worship Olivia Chow, Mayor of Toronto, with Mr. Peter Lau, President, Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto, at the City Hall Exhibition (Photo by Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto)
Members of the Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto at the City Hall Exhibition (Photo by Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto)
Exhibition at Metro Hall Rotunda
Date: May 7 to May 13, 2025
Venue: Metro Hall Rotunda, Toronto, 55 John Street. Google map of event venue.
FREE ADMISSION
Photographers Include:
Tam Kam Chiu. PSA Distinctions: GMPSA (2018) MPSA (2018)
Tam Kam Chiu (譚錦超) is a Chinese Canadian, born in Hong Kong. He has been the President of the Photographic Society of Hong Kong (PSHK), Salon Chairman of the Photographic Society of Hong Kong (PSHK), Liaison Officer of The International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP) in Hong Kong as well a member of judged panels of the Hong Kong International Salons and of various photographic contests in Toronto.
He is currently the Honourary Advisor and the Chairman of Proficiency and Honourary Awards of the Canadian Chinese Photographic Society in Toronto.
Tam is a Fellow and Honourary Fellow of The Photographic Society of Hong Kong and an Honourary Fellow of the Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto. He is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (RPS) and has been awarded the International Federation of Photographic Art’s Excellency Service Award, along with many other awards.
In 2014, he was rated the top seventh photographer in the world, and the number one photographer in the North America by the Photographic Society of America.
A well-known photographer in artistic photojournalism photographs, his photographic works have been exhibited in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Macao and overseas. In 2003, he was invited to exhibit his flowers photos at the Toronto Botanical Garden. In 2007, the Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) invited Tam to exhibit his work at Metro Hall in Toronto.
Tam’s publications include: Tam, Tam, Tam Photographic Exhibition Album (1992), and Tam, Tam, Tam Photographic Exhibition Album (1994).
Stephen Siu
Mr. Siu, former Executive Director of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto, is currently the President of Yee Hong Community Wellness Foundation, one of the largest Chinese Canadian charities in Canada. He has served as advisor to several non-profit organizations including the Chinese Canadian Photographic Society, Ontario Cross-Cultural Music Society and the Canada-Hong Kong Library. He was presented with the Chinese Canadian Legend Award in 2009, the Arbor Award in 2010, the Canadian Senate 150 medal and the King Charles III Coronation Medal in recent years.
Event co-organizers: Asian Heritage Month—Canadian Foundation for Asian Culture (Central Ontario) Inc.; Toronto Public Library; Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto; Richard Charles Lee Canada Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto; Chinese Canadian Photography Society of Toronto; Social Services Network; Cambridge Food and Wine Society
Asian Heritage Month Festival is partially funded by the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Asian Canadian Artists in Digital Age is funded by Canada Council for the Arts Digital Strategy Fund