Kurt Tong graduated with a master’s degree in documentary photography from the London College of Communication in 2006. His work revolves around exploring his Chinese roots and understanding of his motherland, Tong having grown up in the United Kingdom. He has exhibited widely, including the Victoria Museum, Liverpool; Compton Verney, UK; the Chinese Cultural Foundation of San Francisco; and Lianzhou Photography Museum, China. His monographs include In Case it Rains in Heaven, Kehrer Verlag (2011); The Queen, The Chairman and I, Dewi Lewis Publishing/LMP (2019); and Combing for Ice and Jade, Jiazazhi Press (2019).