Visions of Petaca
IN SOME WAYS, it was a strange choice for these politically active twentysomethings to settle in Petaca: The town was home to about 50 very traditional Hispano Catholic families with roots in the area…
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A Tale of Two Crops: Chile vs. Cannabis
FOR A MOMENT, in the honeyed early morning light of the Española Valley, it’s quiet—quiet enough to hear the Río Grande gurgling just beyond the edge of the fields, quiet enough to make out the…
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Step Inside the Luminarium
THE SHARPEST DESCRIPTION of the PASEO, Taos’s beloved 10-year-old outdoor art extravaganza, came from a tattooed tough guy in a leather jacket. He was shouldering his sleeping toddler at the tail end…
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Roger Deakins Shares His New Mexico Views
AFTER A LONG DAY ON SET—or when the weather isn’t cooperating—Roger Deakins, the two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer behind The Shawshank Redemption, A Beautiful Mind, The Big Lebowski, Skyfall…
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Alex Harris Returns to Peñasco
IN THE SUMMER OF 1972, a 22-year-old kid with bright eyes and Gordon Lightfoot hair whipped his Volkswagen Squareback out of a Durham, North Carolina, driveway and drove west—west across the…
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Through the Lens of Ernst Haas
UNTIL HE SET FOOT IN NEW MEXICO, in 1952, photographer Ernst Haas was strictly a black-and-white devotee. But during a weeks-long assignment for Life magazine—during which he hitchhiked through…
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