It was the Kowloon Walled City, also called the City of Darkness. For years, this infamous settlement that lacked government oversight was rampant with illegal activities and poor living conditions.

Girard collaborated with Ian Lambot, another photographer, on a book about Kowloon, titled "City of Darkness Revisited," available here. Girard has shared a number of photos from the project here ...

Many of Tse's early AI-generated works were inspired by photographer Greg Girard's images in the book City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City (and the updated City of Darkness: Revisited ...

The walled city, nicknamed the City of Darkness, was certainly dilapidated ... The walled city of Kowloon, a shantytown rising over ten stories into the sky, was an administrative exception ...