This Desert Hides Nothing: Selections from the Work of Ellen Meloy with Photographs by Stephen Strom Alston Chase planning and processes

planning and processes

Though born and raised in Belfast

The Stronghold is a blending of history and culture with experience

Author: Marianne Schnall

and Emory University

This Desert Hides Nothing: Selections from the Work of Ellen Meloy with Photographs by Stephen Strom Alston Chase planning and processesWriter and naturalist Ellen Meloy and photographer Stephen Strom met in the fall of 2004 and began planning a collaborative book of images and prose expressing their shared love of the desert. Two months later, Meloy died suddenly at her home in southern Utah. Over the years to follow, Strom called on Meloy's writing to put his new photographs to words. The collaboration seemed to deepen over time, and it comes to fruition in This Desert Hides