Coming from different parts of the media, but meeting in the same part of the world, two distinctly different works examine the peripheries of pleasure. Jonathan Robinson's Sight Unseen is a reverse travelogue in which the expanse of India becomes a sensual medium for the traveler's inner life. Overlaying this mobilized desire are the things of a culture: the dizzying people, the jumbled architecture, the cacophonous sounds and frenzied icons. Robinson's lyrical work revels in the psychic underpinnings of the tourist: the desired India of Sight Unseen is a sub-continent of alienated longing. Jennifer Rodes takes the high ground in Trekking on Tradition, an airy look at the impact of tourism along an ancient trade route between Tibet and India. The Nepalese town of Tatopani is teeming with trekkers who bring with them not just a taste for Himalayan vistas, but also for pizza, Rambo and hot tubs. In this rarefied clime, Nepalese villagers dream of the affluence of far-off places while the tourists step lightly (in hiking boots) upon their fragile culture. -Steve Seid