Photo Exhibition by Award-Winning Photographer Mr. Tam Kam Chiu, GMPSA

Date: May 1 to May 31, 2026

Venue: City Hall Branch, Toronto Public Library, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto. Map

FREE ADMISSION

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Mr. Tam Kam Chiu will feature a special collection of his photographs on Burma. Given the recent earthquake in Burma, this exhibition is the more poignant. However, Mr. Tam reassuringly confirmed those locations featured in the photos are not affected by the earthquake.

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).

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