Greg Girard is a Canadian photographer whose work has examined the transformations of the social and physical landscape in Asia.
Greg Girard has lived, worked and travelled for more than four decades in Asia. He has produced a number of books on cities in Asia, most notably City of Darkness (Watermark / Berlin, Ernst & Sohn, 1993) and City of Darkness Revisited (Watermark, 2014)about Hong Kong’s infamous Kowloon Walled City, and the monographs Phantom Shangai (Magenta Foundation, 2007) and Hanoi Calling (Magenta Foundation, 2010).
Publihser's presentation: "Japan’s southernmost prefecture, Okinawa, hosts a concentration of US military bases unlike anywhere outside the continental United States. More than half the 50,000 US troops stationed in Japan are based here. On the main island of Okinawa nearly 20% of the land is occupied by these bases. This large US military footprint, and...