Since opening in Hong Kong in 2007, Blue Lotus Gallery has built a programme around photography, photobooks and artists whose work offers different perspectives on the city and the wider Asian region. Now, the gallery is expanding its programme to Europe with the opening of Blue Lotus Art Projects Ghent, its new permanent space in Belgium.

Ahead of his talk at Blue Lotus Gallery on 6 September, Hong Kong photographer Hang Tam discusses his handmade photobooks It really is Kwun Tong? and Hello! Do You Remember Me?, exploring photography, memory, and a changing Hong Kong.

Ahead of his talk at Blue Lotus Gallery on 6 September, Hong Kong photographer Hang Tam discusses his handmade photobooks It really is Kwun Tong? and Hello! Do You Remember Me?, exploring photography, memory, and a changing Hong Kong.

Hong Kong’s neon signs are disappearing, but their stories remain. Through Keith Macgregor’s photographs and the conservation work of @streetsignhk, City of Lights looks at what has been lost, what is being saved, and how the city’s neon heritage might continue.

For decades, Keith Macgregor’s commercial career defined how the world saw Hong Kong by day, while the city's iconic neon signs remained merely a "living wallpaper" in the background. But in 1999, realizing how quickly that unique nocturnal landscape was disappearing, he began an urgent, decades-long race against time to archive it.

In the 1980s, the narrow, crowded alleyways of Shinjuku’s Golden Gai were the boisterous gathering place for some of Japan's most influential photographers. Within its tiny bars, a young Koji Onaka sat amidst legendary names like Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki as they chatted, laughed, and at times, argued deep into the night. It was a formative, restless era that helped shape Onaka's photographic voice. Yet, as he began to carve his own path, he moved away from the raw, confrontational angst of his mentors, turning his lens toward something more elusive: the scent of a hometown, the slant of light on a weathered tin roof, and the quiet "distance" between the present moment and a fading memory.

As 2025 draws to a close, we look back on a year of exploration and reflection at Blue Lotus Gallery, tracing exhibitions that explored Hong Kong’s evolving identity while deepening our engagement with Japan’s meditative landscapes and spiritual traditions.

Across past and present exhibitions, Blue Lotus Gallery has explored this meditative terrain of Japan through the eyes of Michael Kenna, Yasuhiro Ogawa, and Ulana Switucha, artists united by a shared sensitivity to the spaces where nature and spirit meet.

Ulana Switucha
TORII

at blue lotus gallery
15 November - 14 December 2025

French photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze, long inspired by Hong Kong’s streets and skyline, reflects on the city he called home for sixteen years, the work it inspired and how it shaped him personally and artistically.

As his project HK:PM lights up the M+ Facade, Greg Girard reflects on his years in the city, its transformation, and what it means to see his photographs reimagined in this unique new context.