Following Hong Kong: Perspectives, Prospectives, Typologies (2018), filmmaker and photographer Pascal Greco returns with a second volume that completes a two-part box set—a meditative document of Hong Kong’s rapidly vanishing urban landscape.
Hong Kong Neon pays tribute to the city’s once-ubiquitous neon signs—icons of its visual identity that, over the last decade, have all but disappeared. Shot between 2012 and 2019 using discontinued instant film formats (Polaroid 125i, 669, and Fujifilm FP-100c), the book captures over 170 signs. More than 80% of them no longer exist. Rendered in delicate, fading color, each image feels like a quiet act of preservation—part typographic archive, part visual elegy.
Designed by Nask Studio, the book reflects the project’s tone of reverence and loss: bound by hand in canvas, printed in English, Chinese, and French, and limited to 650 copies. It also includes a private QR code linking to Greco’s contemplative documentary, which features rare conversations with two masters of the craft—neon light artisan Master Wu, and calligrapher Master Fung Siu Wah.
A collaboration between Infolio Éditions (Switzerland) and MCCM Creations (Hong Kong), the edition is now out of print.
