10 – Greg Girard – Phantom Hours

A traveler never used to leave much of a trace as they moved around, not so long ago. For the first 12 years, from 1974 to 1986, I didn't possess a credit card (and mobile phones didn't arrive until 1995), and so everything was paid for in cash. If you needed to let anyone know where you were, or where you might be, you wrote a letter.  A telephone ringing was a land line and it was always for someone else. GG

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Greg Girard is a Canadian photographer (b. 1955) who has spent much of his career in Asia. For more than four decades his work has examined the social and physical transformations shaping the region, with a particular focus on its major cities. He is the author of several acclaimed photographic books and his work has appeared in National Geographic Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, the Sunday Times Magazine (UK) and others.