This book offers a glimpse into the wideranging 50year career of the internationally renowned Hong Kong photographerdesigner through his work in collages and photomontages. From his early album covers when he was an art directordesigner for the music industry in New York Los Angeles and London in the 1970s through his diverse international assignments and personal works to his most recent exhibition in Hong Kong. The story encompasses the long journey from cutandpaste collages to the computercomposited photomontages of dreamscapes in thisampampamp160Carnival of Dreams.In his introduction titled ampampamp8216The Man from Everywhereampampamp8217 Pico Iyer writes ampampquotFor decades now Basil Pao has been the global eye through which Iampampamp8217ve taken in almost every country as clearly as the world withinampampamp8230 I never know where to place Basil I canampampamp8217t get my head around him.