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The Tyee: Greg Girard May Be Too Cool
One might pass Girard on the street and never clock him as an internationally famous photographer. He has the curious effect of disappearing into the background. For the images that Girard has created over the years, this is probably a handy skill to have. Read More
The Province: Polygon present Girard retrospective
“It’s exciting to get invited to do it. I mean how do you respond to these things that you have no control over?” said Girard. “In terms of institutional interest, I mean, how does it arrive? I don’t really know. I just do what I do.” Read more
The Globe and Mail: The big picture
A new retrospective at Vancouver’s Polygon Gallery attempts to capture the wide-ranging, time-spanning career of photographer Greg Girard Read More
Stir: At The Polygon, remarkable new exhibition connects Greg Girard’s images from across the decades, and across the Pacific
IT’S 1975 AT GRANVILLE and Broadway, and the late, great Aristocratic Restaurant stands as a beacon in the night. Rising Vancouver photographer Greg Girard has set up his tripod on the sidewalk and captures a blurred figure entering the glass door to the diner, where a waitress busies herself behind an illuminated cigarette machine. Around …
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 …