Profile of Jim Liaw (FMPA, MBA, UK)
Jim is the owner and principle master photographer of the successful photography studio - Jim Liaw Photography, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia since 2007. Assisted by his wife, Ning, has been in wedding and portrait photography business for nearly 19 years.
A respected speaker and Fellow of the Master Photographers Association, UK (MPA) and the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI); Jim has been operating his photography business in Witney, a small town about 12 miles from Oxford City.
He returned home to Malaysia at the end of 2006 and started Jim Liaw Photography business the following year. On April 2010, Jim and his team moved into his new and fully equipped studio, further providing portraiture work to the local community.
Jim has been awarded International Overseas Avant Garde Wedding Photographer of the year in United Kingdom.
The first Malaysian Photographer who has been honored with a Fellowship from the Master Photographers Association, United Kingdom, for his outstanding wedding & portraiture photographic works. An appointed Ambassador and active member of the Master Photographers Association, he has received numerous awards for his photographic works since 1995.
Jim has been voted the Best Male Wedding & Portrait Photographer of the Year 2010 by the Wedding & Portrait Photographers Malaysia (WPPM).
In January 2011, Jim has been invited by Creative Asia, an education foundation, to be a judge for their international print competition; judging live online with judges from Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Philippine and Singapore. He is the former President of WPPM 201i and has been invited as Judge panel for the International Loupe Awards from Sydney, Australia 2011 and 2012. Jim is also the current Brand Ambassador for Spider Holster Asia & Phottix. He is the elected President of Wedding & Portrait Photographers Asia International (WPPA. International)
For further information, visit www.jimliaw.com. You can also email Jim at jimliaw@gmail.com.
AWARDS:
• Malaysia Best Male Wedding & Portrait Photographer of the Year 2010
• International Overseas Advant Garde Wedding Photographer of the Year, Master Photographers Association, UK
• Winner - International Black & White Prints, Print Competition, MPA.UK
• Awarded Fellowship, highest awards in MPA.UK qualification panel
• Winners – Contemporary & Classical Wedding categories, MPA Far East Print Competition, Singapore 2008 & 2009
• Winner – Portrait category, MPA Far East Print Competition Singapore 2008 & 2009
• Awarded over 30 Awards of Excellence by MPA, UK
• Invited as honorable Judge by Creative Asia, Malaysia January 2011
• Appointed Chairman of the Judging Panel of Wedding & Portrait Photographers Malaysia 2011 (WPPM)