24th Annual Photo Awards: Animals
1ST PLACE Bee Amidst the Harvest, Valerie Wells "I captured this native bee in my backyard in Bosque Farms as it hung on the expired blooms of a sunflower. I loved the spikiness, which seemed to lend…
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Category: Culture
24th Annual Photo Awards: Landscapes
1ST PLACE Don’t Get Comfortable, Andy Jones "Don’t get comfortable is the lesson I learned on my first real storm chase. On May 24, I met a friend for a storm chase. In the past, I had shot storms as…
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The Healing Power of Flowers
R OBERT WASHINGTON-VAUGHNS believes in psychological healing through flowers. “I was chasing success in the way that I was raised to do: Get a good job, get good benefits, have a nice car,” he says…
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24th Annual Photo Awards: New Mexico Experience
1ST PLACE Receding, Brian VanDenzen (above) "The ruins of Chetro Ketl recede into a cold morning fog at Chaco Canyon National Historical Park. Chaco Canyon is a mysterious place, marking the center of…
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A Look at Kevin Bubriski’s New Mexico
KEVIN BUBRISKI drove cross-country to Santa Fe in 1981, fresh from a stint with the Peace Corps in Nepal. The aspiring documentary filmmaker fell in love with still photography in northern New Mexico…
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From Hard Times to Holy Roller
NICHOLAS HERRERA didn’t grow up in the small northern New Mexico community of El Rito intending to be an artist. But to say that art became his calling is an understatement. After a near-fatal car…
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Meet the Photo Awards Grand Prize Winner
ANDY JONES’S FIRST LOVE WAS THE OUTDOORS. Formerly a teacher in St. Louis, he’d take weeks-long road trips during the summer to Alaska and Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Glacier, and other national parks…
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The 24th Annual New Mexico Magazine Photos of the Year
GRAND PRIZE WINNER Surprise, Andy Jones "Shooting landscapes at night is something I get excited about. There are many things to love about being out in the dark with your camera. And adding the…
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2024 True Heroes: Casey Otero
CASEY OTERO didn’t know much about baseball when she stepped up to the plate in early 2024 to bring Little League back to Tularosa. What she did know was that the village’s kids needed an after-school…
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2024 True Heroes: Nicole Gallegos
MANY OF NICOLE GALLEGOS’S patients, who have just received diagnoses for conditions like Parkinson’s disease, dementia, or aphasia after a stroke, come to her during the most difficult days of their…
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