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Picturing Home

Above: Tony O'Brien. Photograph by Brandon Soder. WHILE BARTENDING AT EL NIDO, in Santa Fe, Tony O’Brien got his first photography job, at the Santa Fe New Mexican , and began building a résumé that…

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The Faces of New Mexico

Above: The body of the Axle Contemporary step van features over 900 wheat-pasted portraits. Photograph courtesy of Axle Contemporary. There were obstacles, not the least of which was the moment when…

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Antique Imagery

Above: A Platinum-Palladium print from a Bostick & Sullivan printing workshop. Photograph by Inga Hendrickson. Chiara Brandi carries the piece of paper flat, barely clasping its hand-torn edges, as if…

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Shoot for the Sky

Above: Organ Mountain Morning Mist by Wayne Suggs. Photography by Wayne Suggs. On a typical afternoon, I am with my camera gear, driving along a rocky two-track road in the shadow of the Organ…

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Our Photos of the Year

Above: "Liz Dancing" by Catherine Lucas, this year's Grand Prize Winner. HOW DO YOU TELL THE STORY OF NEW MEXICO IN A PHOTO? Is it in a flurry of fabric whipped up in a folklórico dancer’s skirt? Or…

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How To Get the Shot

Above: Noah Daly, of Aspen Colorado, looks for a shot. CAR TRUNKS CRAMMED with camera bags, tripods, and lenses, we flee Farmington before dawn, engines aimed south. Despite our haste, a half hour…

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25 Reasons to Love Route 66

COME TAKE A RIDE. The passenger door is open. We have a 19-foot-long shell-pink and iridescent-lavender American automobile to take us down the road. Some days, as the early-summer sun shakes down…

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