47 years of Hong Kong’s changing places and faces – through lens of photographer Keith Macgregor

Since he first took pictures of the city in 1969 his work has been seen in thousands of prints, calendars, books – and many millions of postcards – around the world

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A tea shop in Shanghai Street, Kowloon, taken by photographer Keith Macgregor in 1982. Photo: Keith Macgregor

Published: 10:05am, 16 Dec 2016Updated: 9:27am, 19 Dec 2016

Photographer Keith Macgregor has been focusing his camera on Hong Kong’s rapidly changing places and faces for the past 47 years – and shows no sign of slowing down.

Over the years his popular Cameraman calendars, showing stunning views of Hong Kong, have been displayed on countless homes and offices around the world, while hundreds of thousands of his postcards have been posted abroad.

Hong Kong bookshops have also stocked his coffee-table photo books, including his best-selling An Eye on Hong Kong, which he is considering publishing in its seventh edition.

Keith Macgregor, who has been photographing Hong Kong for the past 47 years, with some of his pictures at the Conrad Fair, Admiralty, on November 29. Photo: Antony Dickson

Mobile phones have killed off postcards. Everybody now wants to take their own selfie photos... At its peak we were selling two million postcards a year – amazing

Photographer Keith Macgregor

Macgregor, 70, was back “home” in the city last month to sell limited-edition prints of some of his best photographs at two exhibitions – the first at Central’s Kee Cluband the second at the Conrad Fair, at the Conrad Hong Kong hotel in Admiralty – and also, if he had time, take plenty of photographs.