Tamio Wakayama (b. 1941, New Westminster, BC; d. 2018, Vancouver, BC) was a Japanese-Canadian photographer who began his career photographing the civil rights movement in the deep American South. He also documented everyday life in Japan, Cuba, the US and in several communities across Canada, including Indigenous groups in Saskatchewan and the Doukhobors in British Columbia.

In Vancouver he became part of the explosive creativity of the revitalization of the Nikkei community. He committed years to documenting the Japanese Canadian communities including projects around the Redress Movement and the Powell Street Festival. He led a project marking the centennial of Japanese Canadians, which resulted in a travelling exhibition of photographs honoring the Issei in Canada and a publication titled A Dream of Riches: Japanese Canadians. After the development of this project in Vancouver, Wakayama’s archives will be held at Stanford University.