Canadian born Ian Lloyd studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and Brooks Institute in California before working as a photographer for four years in New Zealand and Australia. In 1980 he moved to Singapore to become the managing director of the Apa Photo Agency.

He formed his own company, R. Ian Lloyd Productions in 1983 and has since photographed 36 books on Asia and Australia. His photography has appeared in magazines such as National Geographic, Time, Fortune, Gourmet and Conde Nast Traveler and multinational companies as diverse as ExxonMobil, Pepsi, Motorola and Singapore Airlines have commissioned Ian for commercial photography assignments.

He has won numerous awards for his work and in 2000, a retrospective exhibition of his photography over the past 20 years toured six Asian cities under the sponsorship of the National Geographic Channel, Kodak and Canon.

In 2007 Ian photographed and published STUDIO: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity a 284 page book on 61 of Australia's top painters.

Ian currently divides his time between homes in Singapore and Sydney, Australia.

Awards

• New York International Film and Television Festival Bronze Award (1982) for a commercial audio visual production for Business Week magazine
• Chicago International Communication Festival Silver Award (1983) for a Business Week Travel Multi Image Show
• PATA Grand Award (1985) for Pacific Magazine Macau coverage
• Pata Grand Award (1989) for Discovery Magazine cover on New Zealand
• Pata Gold Award (1991) for Sojourn magazine photography on Australia
• Photo of the Year Awards (1991) - Missouri School of Journalism Honourable Mention for a Fortune magazine photograph on Singapore Airlines
• Communication Arts Photography Annual (1991) Award of Excellence for two magazine photographs
• Singapore Tourist Promotion Board Award (1993)
• Communication Arts Photography Annual (1994) Award of Excellence for a magazine cover photo.