Steve Fitch has been a photographer since the late 1960s and has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Princeton University, and, most recently, the College of Santa Fe and Santa Fe University of Art and Design. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the last National Endowment for the Arts Survey Grant, and the Eliot Porter Fellowship. He is the author of Diesels and Dinosaurs: Photographs from the American Highway (Long Run Press, 1976), Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains, with essays by Merrill Gilfillan, Kathleen Howe, and Evelyn Schlatter (University of New Mexico Press, 2002), and Vanishing Vernacular: Western Landmarks, with an essay by Toby Jurovics (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2018). His work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Yale University, among many others. His Website is stevefitch.com.