CBC: Dark tower of dreams: Inside the Walled City of Kowloon
The infamous “Walled City of Kowloon” was once the most populous spot on the planet. With 1.2 million people per square kilometre, it was a gigantic squatter’s village. Nobody planned it, but somehow it worked, until it was demolished, just before the British handed Hong Kong back to China. Paul Kennedy speaks with photographer Greg […]
Creative Boom: Greg Girard’s nocturnal photographs of Hong Kong’s Night Life in the 1970s and ’80s
HK:PM is Greg Girard’s ode to nocturnal Hong Kong between 1974 and 1989, the earliest work of the photographer’s long relationship with Asia. A journey exploring the underside of a city he first visited as a teenager in 1974 later lived in for 15 years. Read the full article here