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Photographs that pay homage to Hong Kong cinema heyday paired with post-punk band at M+ museum event
- Vancouver-born Canadian photographer Greg Girard shot Hong Kong cinema luminaries such as Wong Kar-wai and Chow Yun-fat on film sets in the 1980s
- Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture is presenting a selection of these images together with a performance by post-punk band Gong Gong Gong in May
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Canadian photographer Greg Girard is paying homage to his beloved Hong Kong in May with a one-day live event comprising a photography exhibition that also includes a performance by an experimental post-punk band with a loyal following in the city.
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“Greg Girard: Hong Kong Made Me,” which takes place on May 11 at the M+ museum of visual culture in West Kowloon, showcases Girard’s photos, many taken in the 1980s and 1990s, alongside archival materials from other Hong Kong film-set photographers.
The collection recalls the heyday of the city’s film industry and highlights the often-overlooked artistry of still photography in film production.
Girard, who will give opening remarks at the May 11 show, first visited Hong Kong in 1974 as a 19-year-old. He was instantly “hooked” on the “mesmerising city”, he told the Post in a 2017 interview and, after roaming the region, and making regular visits to the city, he settled in Hong Kong in 1982.
During the 1970s and 80s, Girard documented Hong Kong’s social and urban landscape, publishing photo books dedicated to them, such as City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City in 1993. Much later, he published more of them in HK:PM, Hong Kong Night Life 1974-1989 in 2017.
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