Friday, August 8, 2025

Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project, an exhibition coinciding with Santa Fe Indian Market

 Via Pasatiempo

August 8, 2025

Four Native American women in brightly colored Jingle Dresses stand in tall greet grass with snow-capped Teton mountains in background

Dress Dream

The inspiration for Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project, an exhibition coinciding with Santa Fe Indian Market that’s showing at Monroe Gallery of Photography, can be traced to a dream that artist Eugene Tapahe (Diné) experienced during the pandemic.

The dream featured the Ojibwe jingle dress dance, an Indigenous dance with roots in healing and spiritual practices — which resonated with Tapahe during a time of widespread illness and social upheaval. Tapahe since has traveled thousands of miles photographing or taking videos of family members and friends performing the dance, documenting a striking combination of brightly colored dance garb and sweeping natural backdrops at national parks and monuments.

A reception is 5-7 p.m. Thursday, August 14, and at 5:30 p.m. Tapahe will discuss the work and preview a documentary he’s developing. Originally from Window Rock, Arizona, he has won awards including best of show in 2018 at the Cherokee Indian Market in Tulsa, Oklahoma. — B.S.


Note: Tapahe talk will be available on Zoom, register here.

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

September 4 On Refractions: A Conversation with Sidney Monroe and Michelle Monroe

 Via B & H Photo


SAVE THE DATE

Thursday Sep 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm ET

Speakers: Sidney S. Monroe and Michelle A. Monroe - Stephen Mallon

Event Type: Photography


On this episode of Refractions, Stephen is joined by Monroe Gallery of Photography owners, Sidney S. Monroe and Michelle A. Monroe.

Where to watch/listen

Refractions are live videocasts hosted by award-winning photographer and filmmaker Stephen Mallon. Conversations will be with a select group of guests discussing creativity, imagery, business, fine art, and light! Curators discuss working with new and established artists. Photographers talking about their careers. Festival directors sharing what challenges face them. Directors will talk about all aspects of filmmaking. Photo editors will discuss the changing world of editorial and what they need from today’s assignment shooters. The mostly one-on-one conversations will have a diverse group of image makers and the people that work with them.


Monday, August 4, 2025

Andrew Harper: "Art in Santa Fe - a few favorite discoveries from my last trip"

 Via Andrew Harper

"The idea I had for this newsletter back in 1979 – to share information about peaceful and unspoiled sanctuaries with a limited and compatible group of sophisticated travelers – remains at the core of its identity today. There is no concealing my disdain for crowds, noise, rudeness, fast food, packaged destinations, characterless hotels and copycat resorts.”

August, 2025


graphic title page for article about art in Santa Fe with a color photograph of a statues of a Native American woman in a field of yellow flowers


While Santa Fe may not be the site of the country’s first art colony (that’s in New York) or the third-largest art market (highly disputed), a fact-challenged tour guide we overheard was right about one thing: The city has a long and rich history as an artist community. Synonymous with Georgia O’Keeffe, Santa Fe became an art-world darling in the 1980s and ’90s, helped along by artist transplants like Judy Chicago, Bruce Nauman and Susan Rothenberg. Visitors today can browse exhibitions in nine museums and more than 250 galleries. These are a few favorite discoveries from my last trip.


Monroe Gallery of Photography


color photograph of four Native American women wrapped in colorful blankets standing in snow with Teton mountains in background, Wyoming
“Ancestral Strength, Teton National Park, Wyoming, Cayuse, Umatilla, Newe Sogobia and Tséstho’e, 2023,” by Eugene Tapahe

Specializing in 20th- and 21st-century photography, this downtown gallery showcases images “embedded in our collective consciousness,” and a visit is eye-opening and deeply moving. The owners, a husband-and-wife team with deep knowledge of the medium, have personal relationships with world-renowned photojournalists. Their gallery documents the highs and lows of our shared history through powerful snapshots in time. In a single visit, you might see how Tony Vaccaro captured the brutality of the battlefield and the beauty of fashion, how Charles Moore and Grey Villet snapped unsettling scenes from the Civil Rights Movement, and other notable photographers caught intimate moments with celebrities, athletes and heads of state. Taken together, the collection provides a chance to reflect on where we’ve been and where we may be going. Co-owner Sidney Monroe indicated that emotional reactions are commonplace here: “It is as it should be,” he deadpanned.

112 Don Gaspar Avenue. Tel. (505) 992-0800

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Save The Date: August 14, Eugene Tapahe Artist Talk During Indian Market Weekend In Santa Fe

 



 Monroe Gallery of Photography is honored to announce a special event during the renowned Santa Fe Indian Market weekend, the world’s largest and most prestigious Indigenous art market in the world, now in its 103rd year.

An Evening with the Artist Eugene Tapahe.

Diné (Navajo) artist Eugene Tapahe will present an artist talk and preview the in-development documentary film Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project on Thursday, August 14 at 5:30. The important exhibition featuring a photography series by artist Eugene Tapahe titled Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project is on view through September 14, 2025.

Please contact the Gallery for further information.


Read In The Eye of Photography Monroe Gallery of Photography Eugene Tapahe : Art Heals, The Jingle Dress Project

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Santa Fe: The Southwest City That Turned Itself Into an Essential Art Outpost

Via The New York Times

July 28, 2025


At Site Santa Fe, 71 artists were inspired by Southwestern figures, from healers and novelists to Navajo code talkers. Here’s a guide to the highlights.

Santa Fe is a place that can literally leave you breathless.

Reeling from a long flight and unacclimated to the altitude, I thought about this as I staggered up the 9,125-foot summit of Atalaya Mountain, with skittering lizards, wildflowers and 360-degree views of the city and its majestic environs.

I was steeling myself for the marathon of Site Santa Fe’s “Once Within a Time,” a citywide exhibition of work by 71 regional, national and international artists that turned out to be revelatory even for those of us with red chile in our veins, who have visited this city for decades.

Site Santa Fe opened in 1995 in a former warehouse turned nonprofit gallery in the city’s art-filled Railyard District, but it stretches to museums and unconventional venues nearby, including a much-beloved novelty store and a boutique-y cannabis dispensary. The cast and locales were chosen by the veteran curator Cecilia Alemani, artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale and director and curator of public art for the High Line in New York.

Storytelling is at its core, with an only-in-New-Mexico cast of characters inspiring artists’ creations. They included boldface literary names like Willa Cather and D.H. Lawrence, who spent quality time in Taos, to more obscure historical “figures of interest” like Francis Schlatter, an Alsatian cobbler turned mystical healer, and Doña Tules, the “Queen of Sin” who ran a notorious gambling den off the city’s Plaza. (Fictional narratives are also thrown in for good measure.)  Full article here

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

The Palazzo Magnani Foundation in Reggio Emilia presents the exhibition Margaret Bourke-White: The work 1930-1960

 Via Finestra sull'Arte

July 27, 2025



graphic advertisement for Margaret Bourke White exhibit with photograph of Bourke-White in a flight suit next to ariplane while holding a camera


From October 25, 2025 to February 8, 2026, the frescoed halls of the Chiostri di San Pietro in Reggio Emilia will host Margaret Bourke-White. The Work 1930-1960, a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Margaret Bourke-White (New York, 1904 - Stamford, 1971), one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century photography. The initiative is promoted by the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani in collaboration with CAMERA - Italian Center for Photography, and curated by Monica Poggi. The exhibition presents 150 images spanning three decades of the author’s activity, including industrial reportage, war scenarios, social transformations and geopolitical conflicts. Born in New York in 1904 and passed away in 1971, Bourke-White was able to build an international career distinguished by her ability to deal with extreme contexts, both in terms of logistical difficulties and political implications, establishing herself as a direct witness to the events that marked the century. The exhibition is divided into six sections, following a chronological and thematic criterion, including industrial reportage, conflict and major social transformations.  Click to read full article


Related article: Margaret Bourke-White. The work 1930-1960

Monday, July 28, 2025

New Book and Upcoming Exhibition: A Period in Time by Ed Kashi

Via Photo.com

July 25, 2025


Looking Back while Moving Forward, 1977–2022
Related Exhibition and Launch Event:
Monroe Gallery of Photography
“A Period In Time”
On View: October 3 – November 16, 2025

''When I first fell in love with photography, I had a deep desire to tell stories that could have an impact on both individuals and the greater good. I wanted to produce stories that would contribute to positive change in the world. But what’s truly captivating about being a visual storyteller is the privilege to learn about the world and observe individuals who are doing inspiring acts or living through traumatic and trying times.''— Ed Kashi

One of the world's most celebrated photojournalists and filmmakers, Ed Kashi has dedicated the past 45 years to documenting the social and geopolitical issues that define our era. His newest book, A Period in Time: Looking Back while Moving Forward: 1977–2022, is a stunning and expansive retrospective of photographs spanning the world and his prolific career. Over 200 images collected in this book reflect his commitment to bear witness. Essays and contextual writings combine with the photographs to provide a personal, in-depth look at significant historical events.

No single book could possibly capture and sum up the entirety of a career as rich in scope and breadth as Kashi's, and that is not what this book sets out to accomplish. Rather, this moving retrospective highlights the essence of Kashi's belief about the unique power of photography to see, record, and share both the overt and the subtle details of the human experience. His work covers dramatic global events, while also accentuating the less visible background moments that often go unnoticed.



black and white photograph of young boy with toy skeleton in his mouth with soccer stadium in background
© Ed Kashi


black and white photograph of masked person carrying a painting with Jesus leading modern people in Ireland
© Ed Kashi

In his Introduction, Kashi reflects, ''Photography is a kind of diplomatic passport to worlds unseen, unveiling issues that need illumination, documenting history in the making, and capturing the human experience and the many awe-inspiring places in our fragile world. I’ve witnessed too many powerful moments to recount them all. This book is a testimony to some of the most important stories I was motivated to pursue and dedicate myself to. My life has been shaped by these stories, the people I had the privilege to observe and learn from, and the places and narratives that have shaped who I’ve become.''

The book includes both color and black and white images and is divided into sections by timeline and project. The book opens in 1977 where Kashi's career in photography began. After almost a decade of magazine assignments, he undertook his first long-term documentary project in 1988 exploring the Protestant community in Northern Ireland. This photographic work would lead to his illustrious tenure with National Geographic.

From 1991-2005 Kashi documented the struggles and perseverance of the Kurdish people, the largest ethnic group in the world without a nation. From the impacts of World War I to the Gulf War to the genocide of Saddam Hussein, Kashi writes, For anyone who encounters the Kurds, it is impossible to remain silent. These photographs are a tribute to the strength and dignity of the Kurdish people.

The book also includes sections with images from Berlin, Ukraine, Cairo, Vietnam, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Iraq, the Niger Delta, India, and Nicaragua, among others. A section on the Middle East spans 1991-2008 and connects to his heritage. His parents were born in Baghdad, Iraq, and immigrated to the United States in 1940. Kashi shares, ''My work and travels in the Middle East finally opened my eyes and heart to my familial origins, not the assimilated reality of a first-generation American.'' Kashi has photographed in 12 of the 22 countries in this region.

Kashi has also worked domestically, notably on an eight-year project with his wife chronicling what it means to age in America. This body of work challenges assumptions, while also looking honestly and compassionately at the inherent hardships of growing old.



color photograph of a young man carrying the carcasses of freshly killed goats are roasted by the flames of burning tires at the Trans Amadi Slaughter, the largest abattoir in the Niger Delta
© Ed Kashi


color photograph of a woman walking with flaring gas burning behind her in the Niger Delta
© Ed Kashi


A distinguishing element to this book is what is learned about the artist behind the photographs. Kashi offers us an intimate view into the personal effects and impressions of being in the field. He also shares deep insights into the relationship with his wife Julie Winokur, through Dispatches or emails, he exchanged with her while away on assignment. These dispatches are interspersed throughout the book providing a personal voice that reveals authentic, raw glimpses into the situations he witnessed and challenges he experienced.

The book is being published by the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, also the home of Kashi’s expansive archive. Don Carleton, the center's executive director, wrote the book's Preface, which highlights the importance of such a collection: “An archive of photographic images can have the potential of being not merely a stagnant repository, but a dynamic way for images from the past to bear witness. Such an archive provides us with opportunities to look deeper at the world around us—as it has been, as it is now, and how it might be in the future.

As Carleton notes, the information preserved on film and in the accompanying words and ephemera not only serves as evidence, but also as context for understanding history, people, and events. One of the primary missions of the Briscoe Center is to collect the work of outstanding photojournalists and documentary photographers because their images can be rich sources of visual historical evidence that can be read and interpreted in the same way as textual documents. If critically analyzed and evaluated, that characteristic can allow them to serve as important sources for research and teaching.

This retrospective book is a slice of Kashi's extensive archive, but the thoughtfulness in which the images and writings were compiled, results in a powerful overview. In Kashi’s own words, his archive is a growing, thriving, and continually evolving organism that has become a living library with profound value.Kashi’s work celebrates the strength, courage and resilience in the people he has witnessed. This book also acknowledges the toll this work has taken on him.

The book concludes with a reflective essay entitled 'Home,' where Kashi divulges a sense of isolation that comes from constantly traveling. He describes a life lived in between either home or a far-flung corner of the globe. Home, in the trusted definition of the word, is an anchor, a compass point, and for Kashi, that place is wherever his wife and kids are.



black and white photograph of people outside a care facility, man in wheelchair in foreground and man on crutches in background
© Ed Kashi


black and white photograph of women carrying a large wood cross in a procession
© Ed Kashi

About the Artist:
Ed Kashi is a renowned photojournalist, filmmaker, speaker and educator who has been making images and telling stories for over 40 years. His restless creativity has continually placed him at the forefront of new approaches to visual storytelling. Dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times, a sensitive eye and an intimate and compassionate relationship to his subjects are signatures of his intense and unsparing work. As a member of VII Photo, Kashi has been recognized for his complex imagery and its compelling rendering of the human condition. Kashi’s innovative approach to photography and filmmaking has produced a number of influential short films and earned recognition by the POYi Awards as 2015’s Multimedia Photographer of the Year. Kashi’s embrace of technology has led to creative social media projects for clients including National Geographic, The New Yorker, and MSNBC. From implementing a unique approach to photography and filmmaking in his 2006 Iraqi Kurdistan Flipbook, to paradigm shifting coverage of Hurricane Sandy for TIME in 2012, Kashi continues to create compelling imagery and engage with the world in new ways. Along with numerous awards from World Press Photo, POYi, CommArts and American Photography, Kashi’s images have been published and exhibited worldwide. His editorial assignments and personal projects have generated fourteen books. In 2002, Kashi in partnership with his wife, writer + filmmaker Julie Winokur, founded Talking Eyes Media. The non-profit company has produced numerous award-winning short films, exhibits, books, and multimedia pieces that explore significant social issues. Kashi is represented by Monroe Gallery, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

All about Ed Kashi



color photograph of a man walking through the rain with reflections on store windows on Hamra street, Beirut, Lebanon
© Ed Kashi

About the Contributor:
Dr. Don Carleton is the founding executive director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History and the J. R. Parten Chair in the Archives of American History at The University of Texas at Austin. A specialist in American political and news media history, he is the author of 14 books, including Red Scare; Conversations with Cronkite; Struggle for Justice: Four Decades of Civil Rights Photography; and The Governor and the Colonel: A Dual Biography of William P. Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby. He is also the executive producer of two PBS documentaries: When I Rise (2010) and Cactus Jack: Lone Star on Capitol Hill (2016). Prior to the creation of the Briscoe Center, he served as founding director of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center (HMRC), an urban history archive. A native of Dallas, Texas, Carleton earned his doctorate in United States at the University of Houston.  don-carleton



color photograph of masked and armed rebels on boats in Niger river
© Ed Kashi

About the Publisher:
As one of the leading history research centers in the nation, the Briscoe Center for American History collects, preserves, and makes available archival evidence that encompasses key themes in US history. The center fosters public exploration of history through research services, exhibits, books, public programs and digital humanities projects inspired by archival holdings. From its inception, the center has collected photography that provides evidence of the people, places, and events of American history. Recognizing the importance of photography for historical research and interpretation, in the early 1990s the center began extensive efforts to collect the archives of major American photojournalists. Those efforts soon expanded to include documentary and commercial photography, resulting in a collection that now contains more than 10 million images and spans from 1849 to the present.  briscoecenter.org



color photograph of young boy with a veil and cooler on his head
© Ed Kashi

About the Distributor:
The University of Texas Press is a book and journal publisher—a focal point where the life experiences, insights, and specialized knowledge of writers converge to be disseminated in both print and digital formats. Established in 1950, UT Press has published more than 4,000 books over seven decades.
utpress.utexas.edu



Mirrors in the Citadel Frame Shop, opposite Erbil’s historic citadel, reflect the movements and energy of this prospering and peaceful Kurdish city. IRAQ 2005⁣
© Ed Kashi


Related Exhibition and Launch Event:
Monroe Gallery of Photography
“A Period In Time”
On View: October 3 – November 16, 2025
Opening with Ed Kashi: October 3, 5-7pm
Ed Kashi in conversation with Don Carleton at 5:30pm
More Information about the Exhibition

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Ashley Gilbertson On The Courage Effect Podcast

 Via Suzanne Weller The Courage Effect Podcast

July 24, 2025

An unflinching conversation with award-winning photojournalist and writer Ashley Gilbertson, who has spent over two decades documenting conflict, migration, and pivotal moments that shape our world. From the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to the halls of the US Capitol on January 6th, Ashley brings us face-to-face with uncomfortable truths through his lens.

In this deeply personal conversation, Ashley shares the magic that drew him to photography at 13, the weight of witnessing history, and why he believes documenting difficult stories is more crucial than ever. We explore his groundbreaking work,  his evolution as a storyteller, and what it means to find courage in the darkest places.

Content Warning: This episode discusses war, conflict, domestic terrorism, and loss. Listener discretion is advised.

"The harder the work is, the better the work will be. When you get really deep into it and you want to stop, that is exactly the moment that you have to try twice as hard." -Ashley Gilbertson


Tuesday, July 22, 2025

CBS Evening News Feature On Stanley Forman's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a fatal fire escape collapse

 Via CBS Evening News

July 22, 2025


How a photo of a deadly Boston fire sparked change

In 1975, Stanley Forman took a  Pulitzer Prize-winning photo during a Boston apartment fire. That photo would spur the city to enact new regulations to keep fire escapes safe. Mark Strassmann has the story.

Online lecture July 23: Nina Berman on work made in 1987 when she traveled with a group of American Vietnam War veterans on their return trip to Vietnam


Via Pemumbra Foundation

July 21, 2025


Penumbra is excited to host a series of online public lectures in July 2025, where artists will share insight into the projects being digitized through this program.

On Wednesday, July 23, Nina Berman will discuss work made in 1987 when as a young photographer and journalist she traveled with a group of American Vietnam War veterans on their return trip to Vietnam. The experience had a significant impact on her and influenced her later work more generally on the costs of war and American warmaking.



July 23, 7-8PM | RSVP here


Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, journalist and educator.  Her work explores American politics, militarization, environmental issues and post violence trauma.  She is the author of Purple Hearts – Back from Iraq, (Trolley, 2004) portraits and interviews with wounded American veterans, Homeland, (Trolley, 2008) an examination of the militarization of American life post September 11, and An autobiography of Miss Wish (Kehrer, 2017) a story told with a survivor of sexual violence which was shortlisted for both the Aperture and Arles book prizes. Additional fellowships, awards and grants include: the Gugggenheim Fellowship in Photography, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the World Press Photo Foundation, Pictures of the Year International, the Open Society Foundation, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship and the Aftermath Project. Her work has been exhibited at more than 100 international venues from the Whitney Museum Biennial to the concrete security walls at the Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan. Public collections include the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of the City of New York, the Harvard Art Museums and the Bibliothèque nationale de France among others. She has participated in workshops around the world for young photographers and is a professor at Columbia Journalism School where she directs the photojournalism/documentary photography program.