都市网: 影留九龙城寨记忆的加国摄影大师 北温办半世纪回顾展
“我是透过相机才真正认识温哥华市中心的。当时我对这座城市一无所知，这个未知、隐密且属于成人的世界，对我充满了吸引力，”吉拉德回忆道。在他早期的镜头下，那些廉价旅馆、平价餐厅与咖啡馆，共同构成了战后蓝领阶层虽然落魄却不失井然的真实世界。只要付出关注，随处可见耐人寻味的细节。 Read More
On the List: The Polygon presents the acclaimed photographer, Greg Girard
“When people think of Greg Girard, they often call to mind images of urban settings at night, long exposures, empty streets, and neon lights,” says Elliott Ramsey, who co-curated the exhibition with gallery director Reid Shier. “His reputation for photographing cities in transition is so established that what often gets left out of the conversation …
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National Post: Polygon mounts first retrospective for acclaimed B.C. photographer Greg Girard
Since his first trip to Hong Kong in 1974, photographer Greg Girard has chronicled social and physical transformations in urban centres. Read More
Montecristo Magazine: Five Decades Through the Lens of Photographer Greg Girard
“I was 18. I just got off this freighter from Hong Kong.” Time and place: that’s what you need to know. He travelled. He shot a picture. That’s the Girardian mode. He rediscovered this particular slide relatively recently, in a box that had been sitting in someone’s basement or garage for over 20 years. “I …
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Montecristo Magazine: Time and Place
There’s a smeary Blade Runner atmosphere, but the roadside closeup doesn’t reveal the location. Slick with lurid pinks, the sidewalk reveals a setting ablaze with neon. It’s a detail, a patch of pavement. A city somewhere in Asia, maybe even Vancouver. Not necessarily a picture we’d associate with the photographer Greg Girard, the wandering chronicler …
Johnackermann Substack: North Vancouver’s Polygon Gallery to host career spanning exhibition of photographer Greg Girard
“He is interested clearly in the depiction of urban environments, in urban environments in transition,” said co-curator Reid Shier. “His early work in Vancouver was largely taken on the Downtown Eastside and back in the day in the seventies, there was and has always been an area that has been troubled.” Much of Girard’s early …
Vancouver Watch: Greg Girard on career as a photographer
Canadian photographer, Greg Girard joins CTV Your Morning Vancouver to discuss the highlights of his luminescent career. Watch Now
Calgary Sun: Polygon mounts first retrospective for acclaimed B.C. photographer Greg Girard
Since his first trip to Hong Kong in 1974, photographer Greg Girard has chronicled social and physical transformations in urban centres. Read More
Art Asia Pacific: 149 Previews
Known for his gritty yet cinematic snapshots of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo, Greg Girard presents his first-ever survey, which traces more than four decades of his prolific career. Beginning in the mid-1970s, the Canadian photographer traveled extensively across Asia, documenting the rapid socioeconomic changes throughout various cities, with a particular focus on the textures …