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 …
“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 …
Canadian photographer, Greg Girard joins CTV Your Morning Vancouver to discuss the highlights of his luminescent career. Watch Now
Since his first trip to Hong Kong in 1974, photographer Greg Girard has chronicled social and physical transformations in urban centres. Read More
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 …
Canadian photographer Greg Girard is best-known for his photographs capturing urban landscapes of Asian cities like Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai throughout an era of rapid growth and change. Now, Polygon Gallery in Vancouver celebrates the renowned figure with his first career survey. Read More
Acclaimed Surrey photographer Greg Girard is finally getting a career retrospective show, though he’s not quite sure how it happened. “It’s exciting to get invited to do it. I mean, how do you respond to these things that you have no control over?” Girard said. “In terms of institutional interest, I mean, how does it …
Admission to the fifth annual series of outdoor movies is by donation, courtesy of BMO Financial Group, and includes entrance to access Polygon Gallery’s summer exhibition Greg Girard (opening July 9), Simranpreeet Anand: Living with the Eternal, and James Harry: Eye of the Ancestor. Read more
By the time that Greg Girard took a photograph of a young Beijing swimmer’s gaze in Summer of 1995, he was already an old hand in Asia. That’s because the Vancouver photographer did something unusual in the 1970s for a kid born in Vancouver—he chose to settle in Asia. He was hooked after taking his …
