UNPLUG & PLAY Live Sessions: Ian Teh
Facebook Live Conversation streamed at 9PM (SGT), Saturday 13th June 2020.
BIO
https://www.ianteh.com
Ian Teh’s dream to live the life of a documentary photographer first started when he travelled off the beaten track to China in his early twenties in 1995. The enormous political and economic changes within the country gave him a feeling that he should stick around. Armed with a passion for photography, a generous helping of naivete and a sense of adventure, the country became his stomping ground for two decades. Throughout his career, he has worked all over the world, his projects often driven by a concern for social and environmental issues.
Ian has published three books, Undercurrents (2008), Traces (2011) and Confluence (2014). His work is part of the permanent collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) and the Hood Museum in the USA. He has received several honours, a grant from the Pulitzer Center in 2018 and presented his work on climate change at the 2018 National Geographic Photography Seminar. Ian's work has been published internationally in magazines such as National Geographic, GEO and Bloomberg Businessweek.
Ian is a workshop tutor at Cambodia's Angkor Photo Festival since 2014 and is a member of the British photo agency, Panos Pictures. He currently lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.