Steve Dzerigian has been exhibited in Museums and Galleries throughout the United States and collected in many public and private collections. His work has appeared in “Black & White” Magazine, “LensWork Quarterly” and Bonus Editions, “Color” Magazine, "Focus" Magazine, “Photography” by London, Stone, & Upton, and “Exploring Color Photography” by Robert Hirsch. In 2018, The Press at California State University, Fresno published his book, "Trail of Stones: My Path in Photography." He instructed field workshops for the University of California, Santa Cruz Extension from 1977 through 2007. For the Ansel Adams Gallery Photography Workshop in Yosemite, from 1984 to 1990, he was an assistant instructor and served as director one of those years. In 2002, he was co-coordinator for the "Ansel Adams Centennial Symposium in Yosemite, Edges and Intersections: The Evolution of Change”. Devoted to facilitating art and education in Central California for more than fifty years, he has served as curator, juror, and consultant for many exhibitions, competitions, and media events, in addition to teaching photography full- time at Fresno City College. Currently he serves on the Board for Spectrum Art Gallery, a 501c3 non-profit, cooperative organization and was its founder 45 years ago. "Photography is my primary investigative and contemplative tool to weave history, philosophy, and the natural world with art making. I produce archival pigment color work, gelatin silver printing, and collage-making related to the creative investigation of and responses to phenomenal examples of nature with all its intersecting environmental and human contexts. My background includes extensive field workshop planning and experience both nationally and internationally - including Africa, Yosemite, the Four Corners area, ancestral pueblo sites as well as many, Maya Archaeological parks in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras. For 27 years I led and instructed field workshops though the highly respected, University of California, Santa Cruz Extension Photography Program. Having worked in and with National and State Parks doing my own, UCSC workshops from 1977-2004, and every summer from 1984 through 1990 instructing for The Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops in Yosemite, I became dedicated to our invaluable, vulnerable parks and resources. Additionally, I was invited to work with the Brian Grogan's Yosemite Photographic Survey of 1991. I am constantly expanding multiple series directly related to our rich natural and cultural legacies. Personal interpretation of events in the natural world guides my series, called "Connections with Nature". As with most of my work, these are created during a process of confluence (“The photographer, for a fleeting moment or perhaps longer, actually feels a kinship with the object being photographed – object and photographer become one and the photograph mirrors that union.”… Richard D. Zakia, Perception and Imaging). Often, I work with subjects that invite pareidolia, a sort of Rorschach test… seeing in non-human things, qualities the human psyche suggests." Drawn to historical and contemporary human impact and relationships with the natural environment, my extensive series, "The Human Landscape", highlights the presence of people, their marks, constructions, destructions, attempting control of nature, and nature's reclamations.