Teo Bee Yen

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Teo Bee Yen (born 1950 in Fujian, China) is a photographer in Singapore. He started photography as a hobby in 1994, and has become one of the top photographers in the world.

In 1998, Teo was elected an Associate of The Royal Photographic Society and became a Fellow (FRPS) a year later. He is concurrently holding Fellowships of photographic societies in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. In 1998, Teo was voted one of the top 10 photographers in the world (colour print section) by the Photographic Society of America (PSA). Between 1999 and 2002, he was ranked among the top three positions and he eventually achieved the PSA five-star award in 2002.

In 2004, Teo received the Cultural Medallion award in Singapore. He is the Vice-President of PhotoArt Association of Singapore.

[edit] Exhibitions

Since 2001, Teo has held four solo exhibitions:

• Affections of the Jiuzhai Valley (2001, Singapore)
• Magical Empress of Sichuan Mountain (2002, Penang)
• People of Mount Daliang (2004, Fujian)
• The Dead Poplar Diversifolia and Going into Ejina (2004, Kuala Lumpur)

[edit] Publications

• Affections of the Jiuzhai Valley (2000),
• Magical Empjkjress of Sichuan Mountain (2001),
• The Dead Poplar Diversifolia (2002),
• Going into Ejina (2002),
• Yuan Yang Di Tian (2003)
• People of Mount Daliang (2004).