Tata Sam Bejan, photojournalist, portrait photographer (of Indian descent but born in Shanghai in September 30, 1911, China). He immigrated to Canada in 1956. An unobtrusive but lively personality permitted him to witness discreetly the events surrounding the 1949 Chinese Revolution. His extraordinary work recorded life on the streets and in the courts of Shanghai in 1948; in India, he had seen the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson and found his approach to photography radically altered.







Tata's portraits of Canadian artists, writers, poets and photographers are an important contribution to Canadian history and photography. He died on July 3, 2005 in Sooke (Vancouver Island near Victoria), British Columbia, Canada.