Ordinary Moments +
For over 20 years, Basil Pao followed Michael Palin (and his BBC crew) around the world. He documented their journeys from the North to South Pole and around the Pacific Rim. They retraced the footsteps of Hemingway, traversed deep into the Sahara, and trekked up and down across the Himalayas. They crisscrossed post-Iron Curtain Eastern Europe and surveyed Brazil from the Amazon to Iguazu Falls. Their collaborations resulted in 11 bestselling illustrated books. In between the Palin journeys, Pao travelled extensively for a variety of clients that took him to remote and exotic locations across the globe, including an epic journey through every province across the length and breadth of China to create the classic China Revealed.
OM - Ordinary Moments+ is the distilled essence of all the miles travelled and the tens of thousands of pictures captured. This anthology of 140 photographs illuminates the purity of Pao’s vision and contains some of the maestro’s personal favourite reportage images—reaching back to ‘The Kiss’ at Gorge du Verdon from 1978 to ‘The Ballerina’ in Hong Kong from 2021.
Basil Pao
2024-07-17
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
Publisher
Felix Cheung
Digital Publishing Manager
fxcheung@hku.hk
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Hong Kong University Press, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
