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M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) in Hong Kong, is delighted to unveil the new M+ Facade commission HK:PM (2025) by internationally acclaimed photographer Greg Girard. This thrilling work is a visual journey through Hong Kong’s cityscape. HK:PM will be shown on the M+ Facade every night from Friday, 4 July to Sunday, 28 September 2025.
HK:PM animates analogue photographs from Girard’s personal collection, shot between the 1970s and 1990s. They portray the bustling streets of Central, featuring students, fashionistas, and workers going about their daily lives. Girard also weaves in rare photographs of the now-demolished Kowloon Walled City. In other scenes, neon-lit streets, lively nightclubs, and magical celebrity moments come to life. There is a sense of perpetual motion, from airplanes soaring between dense skyscrapers near old Kai Tak Airport to the constant activity along Victoria Harbour.
Girard is renowned for capturing cities in transformation, and HK:PM returns his photographs to the site of their creation. In this new format, incidental situations become lasting images, and their sequence unfolds like a film. As a keen-eyed urban explorer, Girard considers how intimate moments and personal memories together shape a collective history, connecting the past with the present.
