Windows to Vietnam - A Journey in Pictures and Verse is a 178 page book of more than140 incredible color photographs and 30 related poems about modern Vietnam. This masterful work of a California photographer and Tennessee poet is a collection of photographs and contemporary verse addressing the culture, people and dynamics of Vietnam today!
Over the past three decades, Scott Clarkson has been involved in law and photography. He was in the darkroom first, at age 14, developing 5 x 7 large format negatives and printing on the enlarger in the basement of the home in St. Charles, Missouri. He relocated to Washington, D.C. for a job on Capitol Hill after graduating from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Attending law school in Virginia (George Mason University School of Law, JD 1982) and practicing law in in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles (where he's recently been appointed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California) allowed him to continue his documentary photography. Creating photography exhibits which include places such as Afghanistan, Vietnam, Pakistan, Kashmir, and Peru, Clarkson has continued to be drawn to important areas where history is now being made. The 2007 book Windows to Vietnam - A Journey in Pictures & Verse, co-authored with poet Veita Jo Hampton, is a highly acclaimed work, and was chosen as "editors pick" by the United States Military Academy (West Point) Association of Graduates, 2008.
Clarkson uses a Hasselblad 500c/m (120 film), a Leica M7 (35 mm film), a Leica M9 and Leica M8 (35 mm digitals), a Nikon F100 (35 mm film) and a Nikon 90 (digital).
