1ST PLACE Seeking Shelter, Tim Baca (above) “I’ve passed this old cabin many times without knowing it was there. It sits behind a hill, and you can only see it while traveling west. Luckily, I…
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1ST PLACE In Omi’s Garden, Joaquin Martinez (above) “My daughter spends most Sundays with her Omi (grandmother), and helps her to tend the chickens and the vegetable and flower garden. She and the…
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1ST PLACE Bolts Above Albuquerque, Aaron Blanc (above) “After tracking storms rolling across central New Mexico, the opportunity to photograph storms in the late afternoon was upon me. I ventured up…
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1st Place Abó Rising, Reece Parker (above) “As one who loves all things New Mexico and especially the history buried in the landscape, visiting Abó and the larger Salinas Pueblo Missions National…
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MY DAUGHTER HAD COME FOR A VISIT between college semesters. A bit of a shutterbug, she wanted her itinerary to include photographing some of New Mexico’s landscapes and a sunset or two. So I sought…
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VIRGIL ORTIZ'S FIRST CLAY FIGURE, created at age six, was a curvy woman clad in a man’s two-piece suit and bow tie. For his genre-bending work, the potter, provocateur, fashion designer, and futurist…
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SET MOSTLY IN an approximation of Silver City’s Bear Mountain Lodge, Lynn C. Miller’s The Unmasking: A Novel (UNM Press) mixes a murder mystery with literary analyses of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude…
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Above: Photograph by Clay Banks/Unsplash. The Shadow Crosser J.C. Cervantes (Rick Riordan Presents) The final installment in the Las Cruces–based author’s Zane Obispo trilogy of Mayan myth, which…
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Land and Culture Cultural Convergence in New Mexico: Interactions in Art, History & Archaeology Edited by Robin Farwell Gavin and Donna Pierce (Museum of New Mexico Press) Compiled in honor of…
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Above: Kristin Goodman is author of #UnderTheInfluence and director of the film The Maid. Photograph by Bahareh Ritter. KRISTIN GOODMAN WAS BRUSHING HER TEETH one night when an idea popped into her…
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