Exploring the less trodden track of Hong Kong's back alleys, Wolf, the anthropologist with a camera, digs into the smelly alleys and documents objects left behind by hawkers, cooks and cleaning ladies. The result is documented in this wonderful quirky book: an encyclopedia of findings neatly catalogued under its fitting theme of mops, gloves and boots and pieces of strings. 

In this captivating new book, photographer Michael Wolf takes readers on another fascinating adventure into the rich cultural oasis of urban Hong Kong. Through his photographs, Wolf focuses our attention on elements that we would normally overlook without a second thought. Collaborating with international art curator Marc Feustel and heritage academics Lynne DiStefano, Lee Ho Yin and Lai Chi Pong, the book ‘Informal Solutions’ examines the spontaneous artistry and accidental poetry flourishing in Hong Kong’s seemingly predictable environment there are surprising places to be discovered.

《非常道 巷裡巷外》是攝影大師吳爾夫(Michael Wolf)的一大力作，他再次引領讀者探索更多香港都市的多元文化。他的作品經過精挑細選，以獨特的眼光和角度，加上精湛的拍攝技巧，將一些往往不以為意的事物轉化為突出的影像，喚起我們的領悟和共鳴。在活躍國際的藝術館館長Marc Feustel  及香港大學文物保育專家狄麗玲(Lynne D.DiStefano)教授，李浩然博士和黎志邦的協力之下，影集披露了香港後巷活潑的人文生態。吳爾夫為讀者發掘出本地一些久已存在但又意想不到的生活領域。