Larry Schwarm is an award-winning, nationally recognized photographer with work published in over fifty books and magazines, including two monographs, Larry Schwarm: On Fire, published by Duke University in 2003, and Kansas Farmers, by the KU Press published in 2017.

He received his MFA from the University of Kansas and taught photography and art at Emporia State for twenty-five years, before joining the Wichita State University faculty as Distinguished Professor of Photography in 2013. He retired in 2019

Larry has an extensive exhibition record and has photographs in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Duke University, Library of Congress, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and many others, including all the regional art museums in Kansas.

Larry currently lives in Bellingham, Washington, with his wife Patricia McDonnell and their two cats.