Art Heals

 Via The Santa Fe New Mexican

August 17, 2025

"...that’s exactly why I documented the project: the educational purpose behind it is important. It needs to be shared; it’s healing for everyone."  Eugene Tapahe

"Art heals.

There it is. You can quit reading.

Instead, find Carolyn’s column on Page 7 of our hefty, glossy-covered 92-page Pasa magazine that came out Friday — the one with Native photographer Eugene Tapahe’s (Diné) stunning visual on the cover, courtesy of the Monroe Gallery of Photography." 

--Bill Church is executive editor at The Santa Fe New Mexican.

Read the Pasatiempo Magazine article here.

The 2025 Photography Show In Review

 

The Art Newspaper

Monroe Gallery's presentation in the news:

Hyperallergic: Indigenous Humor and Resistance Shines at The Photography Show

The Guardian: Keith Haring, Kanagawa and Georgia O’Keeffe: highlights from NYC’s Photography Show – in pictures

Cottages and Gardens: Inside the 2025 AIPAD Show

Collector Daily: There is a contagious playfulness is this 1951 fashion shoot captured by Tony Vaccaro. What’s not to love about the pitcher of water poured over the umbrella to create rain, with the city skyline in the background? If there is actual fun to be found in the images on view at a photo fair, this is what it looks like

Eugene Tapahe

Collector Daily: There is a contagious playfulness is this 1951 fashion shoot captured by Tony Vaccaro. What’s not to love about the pitcher of water poured over the umbrella to create rain, with the city skyline in the background? If there is actual fun to be found in the images on view at a photo fair, this is what it looks like

Tony Vaccaro: The Umbrella LOOK magazine, NYC 1951

Tony Vaccaro's iconic photograph of Peggy Guggenheim on a 75-foot banner outside the fair at The Park Avenue Armory

Screenshot of Tony Vaccaro's photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe holding Swiss cheese to her eye from The Gurdian news feature

See the Monroe Gallery exhibit here.

A view of the Monroe Gallery booth

Hyperallergic: Indigenous Humor and Resistance Shines at The Photography Show

 Via Hyperallergic

April 25, 2025

"Monroe Gallery of Photography, also based in Santa Fe, is showing striking works from Diné photographer Eugene Tapahe’s Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project (2020-present), which intertwines ritual and protest to foster collective healing."