Exquisite full color images, an essay and scientific fact combine to create a title that explores the Everglades and its current precarious condition. Through research, discussions with biologists, and hours trekking through the swamps, marshes and forests of the Everglades, Curzon highlights the continued threats to this precious ecosystem. A large format book with visual beauty to entice the reader to attend to the book's substantive message-Night is falling in the Everglades.
Joel M. Curzon grew up primarily in Utah, where the southern Wasatch Mountains look out over the Great Basin. In college he majored in physics and studied philosophy, graduating magna cum laude in 1995; he later attended Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1999. Curzon quit his full-time legal practice after several years in order to focus on writing and photography.
Curzon began his photographic work in the Everglades in 2002, and subsequently spent many months exploring and photographing the Everglades region. During this time he became a student of the region's ecology; he also became an observer and critic of the ongoing restoration efforts, which he came to see as deeply flawed and inadequate.
