M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, presents its first Special Exhibition on photography, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Noir & Blanc—A Story of Photography. The exhibition is co-presented by M+ and the French May Arts Festival, in collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), and is exclusively sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Noir & Blanc—A Story of Photography is a thematic presentation of photographic works dating from 1915 to 2019 and will be the first major public exhibition of BnF’s photography collections in Asia. It features over 170 internationally celebrated photographers, including Man Ray, Diane Arbus, Mario Giacomelli, Robert Frank, William Klein, Daido Moriyama, Valérie Belin, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Over thirty works from the M+ Collections are also showcased, spotlighting how eminent Asian photographers and artists such as Chang Chao-Tang, Ho Fan, Lang Jingshan, Liu Heung Shing, Nalini Malani, Ishimoto Yasuhiro, and Yau Leung transformed this expressive medium.

The three thematic sections of the exhibition offer different perspectives to understand black-and-white image-making over the course of more than a century.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Noir & Blanc—A Story of Photography is supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust as Exclusive Sponsor, together with Cathay as Travel Partner. Manifesto Expo is the Exhibition Coordinator of the exhibition.