The Santa Monica catalogue gathers all the photographic artworks on display at the Santa Monica exhibition in 2005 as well as more than one hundred additional images from the Ashes and Snow collection. 

Ashes and Snow: A Novel in Letters by Gregory Colbert is the fictional account of a traveler who, over the course of a yearlong journey, composes 365 letters to his wife. The letters reveal the source of the title of both the book and the exhibition.

Ashes and Snow: A Novel in Letters by Gregory Colbert is the fictional account of a traveler who, over the course of a yearlong journey, composes 365 letters to his wife. The letters reveal the source of the title of both the book and the exhibition.

A selection of the most iconic images of elephants and whales from Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow.

A selection of the most iconic images of birds and elephants from Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow.

A selection of the most iconic images of cheetahs, orangutans, and meerkats from Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow.

Printed and bound in Italy on Velata Biblos paper from Cartiere Magnani; cover from handmade Nepalese paper sealed with natural beeswax; tied with tea-stained thread.