Canadian photographer Greg Girard has published a book named Hanoi Calling: One Thousand Years Now to celebrate the millennium anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi.
Hanoi Calling: One Thousand Years Now captures the spirit of daily life and the architectural heritage of the unique and complex city. Greg Girard takes readers through the city’s streets and alleys, onto its rooftops and balconies, and into the shops and homes of Hanoi’s residents on the eve of the millennium. Eschewing the city’s better-known landmarks, Girard instead explores the often overlooked features that define daily life for residents, taking us into a private and intimate version of the everyday.
Girard is a Canadian photographer whose work looks at the social and physical transformations taking place in Asia. As with Hanoi Calling: One Thousand Years Now, his two previous books, Phantom Shanghai and City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City, combine an anthropological approach with a lyrical realism. Greg Girard’s work is in the permanent collection of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Art Gallery of Ontario and other public and private collections worldwide.
Photos from the book will be exhibited from 1-10 November 2010 at Hanoi Studio, 13 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi. Hanoi Studio will also organize the sales of the book and represents Girard in Vietnam.