HONG KONG.- M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) in Hong Kong, unveiled 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 until 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.

Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director, M+, says, ‘Greg Girard’s HK:PM embodies M+’s commitment to visual culture in Asia, illuminating the beauty and complexity of Hong Kong life. This commission not only celebrates the city’s distinctive visual identity but also encapsulates our dedication to presenting works that resonate with our audiences. We are proud to make visual culture accessible, dynamic, and vibrantly alive for everyone through the M+ Facade.’

Silke Schmickl, CHANEL Senior Curator, Head of Moving Image, M+, says, ‘We are thrilled to work with Greg Girard again following our collaboration on Greg Girard: Hong Kong Made Me in 2024. HK:PM is a striking body of photography that evokes cinematic drama within still images. It testifies to Hong Kong’s powerful and persistent capacity to inspire artists to capture the many stories that unfold within its dense urban fabric.’

Greg Girard says, ‘Creating HK:PM has been a journey of rediscovery. When I first took the bulk of these Hong Kong images as a young photographer in the 1970s, I never imagined them resonating with an audience, let alone shown to an entire city. This M+ Facade commission offers me the unique opportunity to revisit these photographs, transforming fragments of Hong Kong’s recent past into a cinematic sequence. HK:PM weaves together photographic artifacts, memories, and stories—both told and lived. I am honoured to see these images anew and alive, decades later, as part of the skyline of the city that inspired them.’

Greg Girard (Canadian, born 1955) is a world-renowned photographer. He is celebrated for his archival records of life in the now-demolished Kowloon Walled City. Beginning his photography career in the 1970s, Girard spent over three decades exploring Asian metropolises, including Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, capturing their social and physical transformations. His work is part of the collections of M+, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and other public and private collections. His most notable works include Phantom Shanghai (2007), City of Darkness Revisited (2014), and HK:PM (2017).

The new M+ Facade commission, HK:PM, follows the 2024 programme Hong Kong Made Me. This extraordinary live-cinema event at M+ was a collaboration between Girard and the Beijing rock band Gong Gong Gong, which transformed Girard’s photography into an unforgettable cinematic sequence.