Steven B. Smith's work seeks to create a portrait of our culture by engaging the many ways we value and shape the landscape. Your Mountain is Waiting was created in Utah, Smith's home state, after years living on the east coast. In this body of work Smith strives to show the complicated relationships that people who live in the west have with their surrounding environment. Whether they are recreating or building a new home their love of the landscape is expressed through conspicuous consumption.

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Steven B. Smith (American, b. 1963) is a photographer whose work chronicles the transition of the Western landscape into suburbia. For this work he was awarded the First Book Prize for Photography by the Honickman Foundation and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West was published by Duke University Press (2005). His most recent book Your Mountain Is Waiting was published by Radius Books (2020), He has received many awards, including Guggenheim and Kittredge Fellowships. His work has been widely exhibited and can be found in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Smith received his BFA from Utah State University and his MFA from the Yale School of Art. He lives in Riverside, RI and teaches in the Photography department at RISD

Steven B. Smith, Ivins, Utah, #41, 2018

Steven B. Smith, Pleasant Grove, Utah, #27, 2008

Steven B. Smith, Mesquite, Nevada, #8, 2009