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Greg Girard

Greg Girard (born 1955) is a Canadian photographer whose work has examined the social and physical transformation in Asia's largest cities for more than three decades.

''City of Darkness Revisited'' (2014) revives an early collaboration with co-author Ian Lambot, and updates their original book ''City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City'' (1993). Based in Shanghai between 1998 and 2011, ''Phantom Shanghai'' (2007) looks at the rapid and at times violent transition of Shanghai as the city raced to make itself "modern again" at the beginning of the 21st century. ''Under Vancouver 1972–1982'' (2017) looks at the city where Girard was born, especially the waterfront and the other unglamorous parts of the port city, before making Asia his home for the next thirty years. While living in Hong Kong he photographed Hong Kong's neon-drenched streets, bars and nightclubs, in the book ''HK:PM Hong Kong 1974–1989'' (2017). ''Hotel Okinawa'' (2017) looks at Okinawa's unique social and physical landscape, created by decades of living alongside the US military. ''Tokyo-Yokosuka 1976–1983'' (2019) completes a loose trilogy of photobooks (along with ''Under Vancouver 1972–1982'' and ''HK: PM Hong Kong Night Life 1974–1989'') that features early work made in the 1970s and 1980s, largely before his professional career began in the late 1980s. ''JAL 76–88'' expands on work that first appeared in ''Tokyo-Yokusuka 1976–1983''. It documents artefacts of a pre-bubble Japan, and particularly Tokyo.

Girard's work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, The Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Art Gallery. His photographs have appeared in ''Time'', ''Newsweek'', ''Fortune'', ''Forbes'', ''Elle'', ''Paris Match'', ''Stern'', ''The New York Times Magazine.'' His work has been exhibited in galleries in South Korea, London, Germany, Helsinki, and New York City. In addition to book projects and gallery work he is a contributing photographer to ''National Geographic.'' Provided by Wikipedia