Stephen E. Strom

Secrets from the Center of the World

Bluff, Utah Overlook Overlook North of Bluff, UT Evening, Near Bluff Abandoned Hogan near Bluff, UT
Desert Floor Near Round Rock Desert Floor Between Many Farms and Round Rock Desert Floor Near Many Farms Mudhills, Beautiful Valley
Mudhills near Nazlini, AZ Fence on Mudhills near Nazlini, AZ Looking down the Valley East of Nazlini, AZ Overlook of the Fort Defiance Plateau
Late Fall, Looking down into the Canyon Cottonwoods near Mummy Cave Sunset at Junction Overlook Mudhills West of Tuba City, AZ
Desert Floor near Tuba City, AZ Mudhills near Burnham, NM Desert Floor Near Shiprock, NM Desert Floor Near Shiprock, NM II

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 yesterdayÕs cloudburst into undulations of color and form Ð its history reimagined in light that at once penetrates and sculpts. I bring to this landscape the sensibilities of an astronomer who has lived in the desert for almost 20 years, and in whom the desert has lived for more than 30. My tools are simple: a 35mm or 4x5 view camera, and long focal length lenses whose power to compress vast desert spaces can create an illusion of intimacy, of comprehension. The original transparencies were scanned, processed and reformatted, inviting viewers to look deeply into what light and earth together form.

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