CHAN HUA CHIANG
FRPS FSPM HonFSPM HonFSPAS HonFICS ETC
General Chairman Cross-Culture Service Award
ICS International Permanent Commisioner
ICS Board of Management

Freelane Photography Instructor / Advisor
Sarawak Photographic Society – SPS – Malaysia
Kuching Malaysia – South East Asia
E-mail: (chanhuachiang@gmail.com)

CHAN HUA CHIANG Electrical Engineer from Sussex University, England, also a Professional Engineer of Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, who has great passion for photography.
He developed an interest in photography since childhood, and in middle school, he participated in the school’s photography club.

From there he acquired photography skills, including developing his own photos in the darkroom.
One of his mentors in photography is the world renowned photographer the late Master KF Wong Hon.FRPS who is also the founder of Sarawak Photographic Society in 1956.

His passion lies in human interest photography, and he has devoted much of most of his time chronicling the lives of the indigenous people of Malaysia such as the Iban and Penan Indigenous tribe of Sarawak Borneo.

•1991 Elected as the Assistant Secretary of Sarawak Photographic Society, Malaysia (SPS) founded by late Master KF Wong Hon.FRPS in 1956, he was the Honorary Advisor of the Club then.
• 2000 Awarded ARPS by the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain with a set of photos of the Iban indigenous tribe in Borneo.
• 2012 Awarded FRPS – the highest accreditation from the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, with his images depicting the day-to-day lives in an Iban village as well as the Penan nomadic minority group.
• 2012 Appointed as the East Malaysia Chairman of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (Malaysia Chapter) – East Malaysia (Sarawak and Sabah of the Borneo Island)
• 2012 Appointed as a Member of the Distinction Consultative Council of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (Malaysia Chapter), and
• 2012 Has been pivotal in helping photography enthusiasts obtain the British Royal Photography Distinction Awards ARPS and FRPS.
• 2015 Awarded FSPM the Society of Photographers, Malaysia(SPM) by the National Society of Photographers in Malaysia.
• 2015 Appointed by the Photographers Society, Malaysia(SPM) Council as one of the council members.
• 2015 Appointed as a member of the Society of Photographers, Malaysia’s (SPM) Panel of Judges assessing the Award of ASPM and FSPM.
• 2016 Elected as Vice President of the Society of Photographers, Malaysia.
• 2016 Appointed as Society of Photographers, Malaysia (SPM) panel of judges assessing the Award of ASPM and FSPM.
• 2017 Conferred the title of Hon.FSPM by Society of Photographers, Malaysia (SPM).
• 2019 Appointed by the Sarawak Photo Art Society of Malaysia (SPAS) as one of the jury members of the Distinction Title Assessment Board.
• 2019 Conferred the title of Hon.FSPAS by the Sarawak Photo Art Society, Malaysia(SPAS).
• 2020 Elected as the President of the Sarawak Photographic Society, Malaysia SPS, the Society founded in 1956 by late Mr KF Wong HonFRPS.
• 2020 Awarded the title of one of the highest honorary fellows by the Image Colleague Society, international (ICS) of USA, (Hon FICS)

• In addition to being a permanent member of most of East Malaysian Photographic Societies, he is also an advisor to the Miri Photographic Society, Malaysia.
• Administrating the 3 FB pages, The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (Malaysia Chapter), FAPA in Malaysia and Sarawak Photographic Society, Mlaysia.
• Often invited as one of the panel of Judges to the International Salon of Photography both at the Eastern and Western Malaysian states.
• Has been working hard to promote the recognition of local photographers talent and skill both locally and internationally and helping to improve the standards of photography in Malaysian