"Steve Fitch is an undiscovered master of late 20^th century photograph whose work in the american west has been relentlessly copied but never equaled."

- Paul Kopeikin

Steve Fitch is a contemporary of Richard Misrach and Roger Minick, having graduated with them from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971. While there Fitch began a project photographing the vernacular roadside of the American highway for which he received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in 1973 and the second in 1975.  Eventually, the photographs were published in the monograph, "Diesels and Dinosaurs," in 1976.

Since 1990 Steve have taught photography at the College of Santa Fe and has continued work on several projects. His most recent project was photographing in the Llano Estacado region of western Texas and eastern New Mexico with five other photographers for the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University which will be published by Texas Tech University Press.