Stephen Strom is both a research astronomer and fine-art photographer. His work, largely interpretations of landscapes, has been exhibited throughout the United States and is held in the collections of the Center for Creative Photography, University of Oklahoma Art Museum, Mead Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. He has published nine books of photography, including, most recently, Death Valley: Painted Light, with poetry by Alison Hawthorne Deming and an essay by Rebecca A. Senf (George F. Thompson, 2016), Earth and Mars: A Reflection, with Bradford A. Smith (Arizona, 2015), Sand Mirrors, with Richard B. Clarke (Polytropos, 2012), Otera Mesa: Preserving America’s Wildest Grasslands, with Gregory McNamee and Stephen Capra (New Mexico, 2009), and Earth Forms, with Gregory McNamee (Dewi Lewis, 2009).
