Home Kong through an artist's 👁️ye:
Blue Lotus Gallery, established in 2007, is a photography gallery with a strong focus on exploring Hong Kong culture and identity. Different perspectives open up our minds. In our newsletter, different artists from the Gallery will give us a peek into their own HK. Through their perspective, their lens.
The Blue Lotus gallery offers an exquisite selection of books, limited edition and vintage prints on old and new Hong Kong by respected master photographers and emerging contemporary artists.
In this edition of LocalHood blog we have for you an art piece from Greg Girard titled 'Lions Rock, Cathay Pacific Jet and Kowloon Walled City' Hong Kong, 1989. Greg Girard is a Canadian photographer who has spent much of his career in Asia. ‘City of Darkness’: a series exploring the old and long-gone Walled City of Kowloon as photographed by Greg Girard and Ian Lambot. This influential body of work, which to date sold over 25,000 book copies, will be on view in a gallery setting for the first time since first published.
For nearly 50 years, the extraordinary community of Kowloon Walled City cut a dark presence in the heart of Hong Kong. Yet without legislation and with little regard for basic services, planning and regulations or building standards, the city not only survived, it positively thrived.
Greg Girard and Ian Lambot set about photographing the Walled City shortly before its demolition due to a deep fascination and because “for all its horrible shortcomings, its builders and residents succeeded in creating what modern architects, with all their resources of money and expertise, have failed to: the city as ‘organic megastructure’, not set rigidly for a lifetime but continually responsive to the changing requirements of its users, fulfilling every need from water supply to religion, yet providing also the warmth and intimacy of a single huge household ...”. Hope you find this spectacular 😍😍 !!
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