If you’ve found yourself strolling along Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour or riding a ferry after sunset lately, you may have noticed the skyline flickering with echoes of a city seemingly distant from today. That’s HK:PM, a unique moving-image commission by Canadian photographer Greg Girard, projected nightly until the end of September 2025 on the massive LED facade of the M+ Museum at the West Kowloon Cultural District.
The piece transforms Girard’s iconic analog photographs, originally taken between the 1970s and 1990s, into a slow, cinematic sequence. In addition to neon-lit backstreets and club scenes that evoke nostalgia, Girard’s lens captured the fragments of life once thriving in places like Kai TakAirport and the Kowloon Walled City.
Importantly, Girard isn’t just another visitor with a camera. He’s a longtime observer and interpreter of Asia’ urban soul. Having spent over three decades living in and exploring Asian metropolises like Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai, he ventured into different corners of the cities that even locals may be strangers to.
Girard’s photography and publications have shaped how global audiences perceive Asia’s evolution, telling stories of collective history through intimate moments and personal memories.
As these iconic images of old Hong Kong loop across the harbor and skyline, they become a silent visual memoir, both a tribute and quiet reckoning with what remains and what’s been lost. But isn’t looking back the clearest way to envision what comes next?
Catch the nightly showcase from Victoria Harbour promenade and follow M+ Museum’s Instagram and Facebook for updates and upcoming events.
Greg Girard: HK:PM Screening Details:
Location: M+ Facade, West Kowloon District, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Dates: July 4 – September 28, 2025
