Images in this portfolio were assembled from photographs of the desert southwest taken between 1980 and 2000. They attempt to capture what is nearly beyond the camera;s grasp: a land shaped by millennial forces and yesterday?s cloudburst into undulations of color and form ? its history reimagined in light that at once penetrates and sculpts
Stephen Strom began photographing in 1978. He studied both the history of photography with Keith McElroy and silver and non-silver photography in studio courses with Todd Walker and Harold Jones at the University of Arizona. His work, largely interpretations of landscapes, has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and is held in several permanent collections. His photography complements poems and essays in three books published by the University of Arizona Press: Secrets from the Center of the World, a collaboration with Muscogee poet Joy Harjo; Sonoita Plain: Views of a Southwestern Grassland, a collaboration with ecologists Jane and Carl Bock; and Tseyi (Deep in the Rock): Reflections on Canyon de Chelly co-authored with Navajo poet Laura Tohe.
