He spent the early part of his professional career at The Straits Times, where he held positions from photographer to picture editor. A vocal advocate of photography in Singapore, he founded Southeast Asia’s first photography workshop, Shooting Home with Objectifs and has exhibited widely and his photographs are collected by Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the European House of Photography in Paris and private collectors. Tay Kay Chin was a lecturer at the Nanyang Technological University for a few years until 2015 and has supervised many final year projects in the areas of photojournalism and illustrated feature.