Elaine Ling
Canadian medical practitioner and photographer
About Elaine Ling
Lived 1946 – 2016 (aged 69–70). Elaine Ling was a Canadian general practitioner and photographer.
Elaine Ling (December 19, 1946 – August 1, 2016) was a Canadian photographer. She immigrated to Canada with her family in the 1950s and grew up in Scarborough, Ontario.
Ling received a medical degree from the University of Toronto, and practised medicine in the Cree Pikangikum First Nation in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, and in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she began taking photographs of female patients with leprosy.
Canada's Image Centre awards a research fellowship in her honour.
Her brother maintains a website of the artist's work and publications elaineling.ca.
Collections Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, The Image Centre (Toronto), the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Brooklyn Museum and Toronto public art museum Gallery Arcturus.
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Who was Elaine Ling?
Canadian medical practitioner and photographer
When was Elaine Ling born?
Elaine Ling was born in 1946 in Hong Kong.
When did Elaine Ling die?
Elaine Ling died on 4 August 2016 in Toronto.
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Elaine Ling was a general practitioner and photographer.
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Elaine Ling was Canadian.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Elaine Ling. https://biography.guide/elaine-ling/
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