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About Wei Leng Tay
Wei Leng Tay is a photographer and artist based in Hong Kong and Singapore. Tay has collaborated with art organizations and institutions in countries such as Japan, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan to produce works intimately linked to ideas of identity, displacement and the self. Her work has also been featured in numerous exhibitions in venues such as ARTER Space for Art, Istanbul, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, NUS Museum, Singapore, Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Kosovo, and the Selasar Sunaryo Art Space in Bandung, Indonesia. Her photographic works are in public and private collections across Asia.
Tay also works in journalism. She has freelanced as a photographer for publications such as TIME, Fortune, and the New York Times Magazine. She has also worked as a photo editor in Hong Kong for Asiaweek Magazine (2000-2001), TIME Magazine’s Asia Edition (2003-2008) and Bloomberg News (2011-2014), assigning and working with photographers across Asia on award winning coverage ranging from politics, natural disasters to business and economics.