Edvard Tam

Interested in music, studied psychology, trained in visual communication. Edvard began taking images casually with his first SLR given by his father when he was about 11-12. Then, in search of identity, he explored different things, music, visual arts, and finally took up visual communication as his career.

After exploring some Jungian stuff, he became interested in Buddhism in the mid-1990s, first Tibetan Buddhism, later Theravada Buddhism, and he started to learn meditation from the Thai Forest Tradition in early 2000s.

Edvard became intested in taking pictures again as he art directed photography on commercial projects. He started to use digital camera and smartphone to capture moments that move​ him. He deliberately stay detached from what was commonly regarded as 'photography' and concentrated on capturing images that relate to everyday life and ordinary things that he found beautiful.

In the early 2010s, Edvard’s mother was diagnosed with dementia. Taking care of a person who used to be active, hard working and was gradually losing memory made him reflect a lot about the process called ‘life’. Photography since then has become a means that he uses to reconnect to every here-and-now, sometime it's a sense of tranquili...

BSc Psy, Prof Dip Psychotherapy, Dip Visual Communication