He splits his time between Santa Fe and Portland, Maine, and shoots everywhere in between. When not on assignment, he can be found at a local farmers’ market with his wife, Shannon, and daughter, Sage, conjuring up the next meal to cook. Merriam’s first drive-in movie was The Love Bug. Later memories include an unsuccessful adolescent attempt to sneak into the movies as a stowaway in a car trunk and documenting drive-ins’ decline for Smithsonian. For this issue, he photo- graphed Jake Cordova and his family as they work to revive the Fort Union Drive-In in Las Vegas. Merriam’s 13-year-old daughter has yet to experience a drive-in movie, but that will change this summer when they return to the Fort Union.