The title "Correspondences" represents collaboration and communication - both between two close friends and artists, and between the two art forms of photographic image and poem. This beautiful, hardcover limited edition book documents the meeting of past and present as ancient Southeast Asian cultures collide with globalization and technology.

The original 2007 photography/poetry exhibition in Santa Barbara, California explored the accuracy of our Western versions of these lands and cultures. Fifteen years later, the fragility of landscapes, species and cultures Clarke witnessed in Laos and Thailand in 2006 has only intensified.