Greg Girard In Conversation

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Join Greg Girard for a conversation with Silke Schmickl, CHANEL Senior Curator, Head of Moving Image at M+ in Hong Kong. Doors at 6:00pm Conversation at 6:30pm About Greg GirardGreg Girard gained recognition working for media outlets while also developing independent projects focused on the social and physical transformations of urban centres, especially in Asia. Travelling extensively, he spent considerable time in Hong Kong from 1982 through 1998, where he photographed the Kowloon Walled City for what became the influential publication City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City (1993), later reissued as City of Darkness Revisited (2014). Girard was based in Shanghai between 1998 and 2011, and is renowned for his images of that city’s rapid, and at times violent, metamorphosis through the beginning of the 21st century. Girard has also produced a number of photobooks, including Phantom Shanghai (2007), which The Independent newspaper cited as one the top 10 photographic books ever produced, as well as Under Vancouver, 1972 - 1982 (2017), which is now in its fourth printing. His photographs have appeared in a wide range of internationally circulating publications, such as National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, and the Sunday Times Magazine (UK). About Silke Schmickl Silke Schmickl is the CHANEL Senior Curator, Head of Moving Image at M+ in Hong Kong. She was previously curator at the National Gallery Singapore and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, a researcher at the German Center for Art History in Paris, and the co-founding director of Lowave, a Paris-based curatorial platform and publishing house for moving image artists. She has initiated and directed numerous art and film projects focusing on emerging art scenes in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and has curated exhibitions in partnership with museums and biennials around the world. In her contribution to the major monograph Greg Girard: Photographs 1972 - 2026 (The Polygon Gallery and Magenta Foundation, 2026), she writes about her collaborations with Greg Girard for M+:  a monumental slide projection on the museum’s façade based on Girard’s photobook HK:PM, and the live cinema work, Hong Kong Made Me, scored by the punk band Gong Gong Gong.