Tom Ang

Tom Ang
Occupations
  • Photographer
  • Author
  • Academic

Tom Ang is a Singaporean photographer, author, traveller, and academic based in New Zealand.

Career

Academic career

Ang was a senior lecturer in photographic practice at the University of Westminster from 1991 to 2004, teaching the undergraduate photography programmes, as well as the Masters in Journalism Studies. He also created the MA Photographic Journalism course.

Ang led a Know How Fund project (within the REAP (Regional Academic Partnership) scheme) that helped equip a radio studio for radio students and reformed the journalism curriculum for the Kyrgyz Russian Slavonic University in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Photography career

In 1979, Ang was a founding member of Wandsworth Photo Co-op, which grew into Photofusion, London's largest independent photography resource.[better source needed] Ang was also a founding member of the World Photographic Academy and helped set up the Student Focus element of the Sony World Photography Awards. He juried for the Czech Press Photo in 2009, the Hamdan International Photography Award and Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

A specialist in travel and digital photography, he has photographed extensively in Central Asia. For over 10 years, he specialized in photographing Central Asia, extensively travelling in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, with a few visits to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

Ang was the presenter of the BBC series "A Digital Picture of Britain", first transmitted in 2005 on BBC4. A second series, entitled "Britain in Pictures" was transmitted in 2007. He presented an 8-part TV series for Channel News Asia in Singapore, which was broadcast in August 2009 (Bronze World Medal, Educational / Instructional, New York Television and Film Awards, 2010).

He had written 35 books on photography.

He is also a Sony New Zealand digital imaging ambassador.

Awards

Ang won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for Best Illustrated Travel Book. He won the HIPA Content Producer Award 2019 Hamdan International Photography Award 2019.

Selected bibliography

Awards

References

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  2. ↑ "Tim Flach and Tom Ang among HIPA’s Special Awards Recipients". Islamic Arts Magazine. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2026.
  3. ↑ "A Digital Picture of Britain – Judges" Archived 4 May 2023 at the Wayback Machine. BBC. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  4. ↑ "Don's Diary". 30 June 2000. Archived from the original on 25 May 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  5. ↑ Archived 19 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine Photofusion site.
  6. ↑ "Tom Ang". Archived from the original on 13 July 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014. World Photographic Academy members.
  7. ↑ "Jury 2009". Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014. CPP jury 2009
  8. ↑ Archived 2 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine HIPA Beauty of Light judges
  9. ↑ Archived 9 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine Wildlife Photographer of the Year jury members
  10. ↑ Archived 24 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine. List of Award Winners, New York Festivals Television & Film Awards, 2010.
  11. ↑ "Tom Ang". Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  12. ↑ ". Objectifs, Singapore. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  13. 1 2 Archived 30 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine. HIPA. Retrieved 8 November 2020.