David Clarke teaches in the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Hong Kong. He is both a photographer and an art historian, and his photographic art has been exhibited many times in Hong Kong, as well as in a number of other countries, including Australia and Canada. His black and white photos of Hong Kong during the handover years are featured in Reclaimed Land Hong Kong in Transition (Hong Kong University Press, 2002). Among his other books are Hong Kong Art Culture and Decolonization and Modern Chinese Art.