Larry Schwarm, Burning grass, Lyon County, Kansas, 1994

With On Fire, Larry Schwarm joins the ranks of America's premier landscape photographers. On Fire is a startling, mesmerizing series of photographs of prairie fires that transports us from moments of almost apocalyptic splendor to the stillness of near abstraction. For over a decade, Kansas-based photographer Larry Schwarm has been making extraordinary color photographs of the dramatic fires that sweep across the vast grasslands of his native state each spring.

Larry Schwarm's photographs have been exhibited widely across the United States over the past ten years, both in solo and group shows. They have appeared in various publications, including An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography, Harper's Magazine and Blind Spot. His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Beach Museum of Art (Manhattan, Kansas), and Spencer Museum of Art (Lawrence, Kansas), and is included in the PaineWebber Landscape Collection and Hallmark Photographic Collections.

Larry Schwarm, Prairie Fire near Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, 1992

National Public Radio's Weekend Edition interviewed Larry Schwarm. Visit the NPR Web site to listen to an audio file of the interview and view a photo gallery of images from On Fire.