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MonSanta Fe Featured Photographers
One of the things that’s most amazing about Santa Fe is the number of talented and gifted photographers that live and work here. Some are professionals, some are “amateurs”, but all have their own unique vision of Santa Fe and northern New Mexico. This is an area of amazing beauty, not just in the stunning scenery, but in the faces of the people who live here, the culture and heritage of the area, the flora and fauna, the festivals, events, architecture, and daily life of Santa Fe. We at SantaFe.com have chosen this area of our website to highlight and celebrate the work and vision of our local photographers. Hopefully, this area will help to educate, entertain, and inform our visitors, as well as serve as a reminder to those of us already fortunate enough to live here how special this place we call Home is.
If you’d like to share your images here, and feel that your vision would add to this area of our site, please email us at editor@santafe.com.
Ann Murdy
Ann thoroughly enjoys taking photos in New Mexico. The Land of Enchantment offers her a wide variety of cultural events full of wonderful people. She moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico from Los Angeles, California. Her editorial photography has been seen in publications such as San Francisco Focus, LA Style, Variety, The Advocate, FAD Magazine, SOMA, The Book – Los Angeles, New Mexico Magazine, El Palacio, New Mexico Journey, the Santa Fe Visitor’s Guide, the New Mexico Vacation Guide and the New Mexico Treasures Engagement Calendar published by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. Her photos are also in the following books: Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art, Saints and Sinners, Dos Mundos, Visions of Santa Fe and Christmas in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico.
She has been recognized for her work by placing in the New Mexico Magazine’s annual photography contest and the annual fall photography contest at the Hubbard Museum of the American West in Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico.
Ann specializes in photographing cultural events such as Indian Market, Fiesta, the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, ethnic dance such as matachine dancing and religious celebrations in Mexico and Guatemala.
Email: annphoto@earthlink.net Website: annmurdy.com
Charles Mann
Charles Mann has been a full-time freelance and stock photographer for over fifteen years. He specializes in imagery of gardens and horticulture, New Mexico culture and southwestern scenic landscapes.
Charles was born and educated in Arkansas, earning a degree in Chemistry at the University of Arkansas in 1975. He taught school in Arkansas, during a Peace Corps stint in the West Indies, in South Carolina and in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He earned a Masters degree from St. John’s College in Santa Fe in 1981.
Charles was also manager and grower for Plants of the Southwest in Santa Fe, a nursery pioneering the use of native plants and xeriscape techniques in the southwest. Since 1991 he has traveled extensively photographing gardens and garden-related subjects.
Email: charles@charlesmannphotography.com Website: www.charlesmannphotography.com Phone: (505) 474-3180
Andrew Neighbour
Andrew Neighbour is at the forefront of exploring a new world where digital photography meets classical realist painting and drawing. The photographs on this site—many of which have won awards—represent a union of his lifelong passion for photography with his training as a fine artist using oils, pastels, and a variety of drawing materials to paint landscapes and portraits.
He approaches fine art from a nontraditional route. Born in England in the early fifties, the son of an artist, Neighbour chose to distinguish himself through science. He immersed himself in the natural world learning to become a zoologist, medical research scientist, businessman, and university administrator. Through those years, his natural inquisitiveness and observation of the wonders of living things honed a visual skill that now emerges in his photographs, etchings, and paintings.
Having settled in Santa Fe to pursue his creative interests, Neighbour has built a growing commercial photography business specializing in art work, product, and architectural photography.
Email: artist@aneighbour.com Website: www.aneighbour.com Website: www.photographersantafe.com
Cathy Scholl
My photographic journey began with eyes closed, in the meditation halls and mountain caves which drew me to India, where I have visited since 1995. The colorful festivals and fascinating people I met during extensive travel there re-ignited my childhood passion for photography. Additional photographic adventures led to Nepal, Bhutan, and Burma.
As a photographer I strive to include my inner experience along with what I am seeing, creating images which are both personal and universal.
My photographs have been exhibited in galleries throughout Southern California. In addition to winning many awards, I’ve been selected to hang in juried exhibitions curated by leading experts in the field of photography, such as Arthur Ollman, founding director of the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego.
After living in Santa Fe twice during the ’80’s I continued to visit the area while studying at Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. In 2006 I returned here to realize my dream of remodeling an old adobe and to take advantage of the combination of rich cultural activities, interesting people and beautiful light that are my perfect recipe for photography, whether found in distant lands or my own backyard.
Email: arunachala22@yahoo.com Website: www.cathyscholl.com
Daniel Nadelbach
Daniel has been a photographer for the past 20 years. Raised in New York and presently based in Santa Fe, Daniel travels worldwide for bookings throughout Europe, Asia and the US, as well as bringing out many clients to the Southwest to benefit from the amazing light, locations and infrastructure of his home base. Having been a model for 5 years prior to becoming a photographer, Daniel worked in N.Y., Paris, Milano, London, and Tokyo, for such clients as Thierry Mugler, Jean Paul Gaultier, Kenzo, Cacharel, Issey Miyake, Kansai, Luciano Soprani, New Man, L’uomo Vogue, Mondo Uomo, Manner Vogue, German Vogue, Albert Watson, Aldo Fallai, Knut Bry, Gilles Tapie & Peter Lindbergh, giving Daniel an education of the business to help launch his photography career. Assisting such photographers as Steven Silverstein, Thierry Mugler, and Franck Thierry further enhanced that learning process. Daniel then went out on his own, getting hired by Vogue Mexicana to shoot photo-reportage for 2 years throughout India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Fiji, Tahiti, and Brazil. Following that experience, Daniel returned to Paris, then to Madrid, and finally coming full circle back to New York to devote his full time to fashion and architecture and interiors, shooting catalogues, editorial, and advertising, before eventually settling in the high desert of Santa Fe. Languages include: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese.
Phone: (505) 982-7004 Email: daniel@nadelbachphoto.com Website: nadelbachphoto.com Santa Fe Models: santafemodels.com
Evalyn Bemis
Photographs can capture many things. In a photograph we might see “a decisive moment”. A startling bit of beauty can be revealed in something we previously took to be ordinary. We glimpse a truth about a stranger or someone very dear to us. We may be inspired to explore an unknown place or return many times to a special location.
I am interested in the things that happen in the edges of an image or just outside it or a moment before or one about to happen. I like to capture a gesture, the suggestion of something mysterious. As Yogi Berra said so concisely – “Sometimes you can see a lot just by looking”
My grandfather gave me a Zeiss camera when I was in high school. I discovered the joys of watching images appear in the magic of a darkroom. I especially loved black-and-white film and slides. I worked as a custom printer for a photo lab in Boston. I went to Hampshire College where I studied the history of photography and built my own darkroom. Photography became a tool in a career in graphic design and then took a further backseat to other pursuits. The advent of digital technology and the ease and fun of sharing images reawakened my interest in 2000.
Having owned and trained horses since the age of 7, I have a particular fondness for them. Horses turn up frequently in my photographs. My images and words have been published in the magazines Equestrian, Eventing USA, Horse Connection, Dressage Today, Chronicle of the Horse; in the Santa Fe New Mexican and Santa Fe Reporter newspapers; and in several online sites.
›› Click here to see Evalyn’s Photo Tours on New Mexico Magazine’s website.
Phone: (505) 577-4141 Email: evalyn@newmexico.com Website: EvalynBemisPhotography.com
Gene Peach
Gene Peach has been photographing the cultures and landscapes of New Mexico for more than twenty years. His Southwestern photos are published internationally and his commercial photography appears regularly in US magazines and books. His photos have been featured on more than two hundred and fifty publication covers.
His award-winning book, Making a Hand: Growing Up Cowboy in New Mexico, essay by Max Evans and introduction by Elmer Kelton, is published by the Museum of New Mexico Press. An accompanying exhibit toured museums nation-wide for five years. Gene is currently working on book projects about elderly Tennessee hill folks and Mississippi black women of the church.
Gene is available for a wide variety of assignment photography. He specializes in location portraits for magazines, corporate clients, and advertising agencies, plus he offers a comprehensive stock photo library of New Mexico’s people and places. He recently completed the photography for Santa Fe Icons, a soon-to-be published book celebrating Santa Fe’s stunning visual beauty and many-layered cultures.
Phone: (505) 466-9520 Email: gene@genepeach.com Website: GenePeach.com
Julien McRoberts
For the past several years, Julien has traveled to various countries photographing the world’s cultures and wildlife. Her evocative photography captures a sense of place, an array of relationships across many cultures: moments of tenderness, joy, and sorrow but always with an eye to its magnificence. Julien’s commercial and editorial work has been featured in several magazines, web and book publications and is recognized for her work with the Native American community and imagery of the vanishing west.
Julien also holds a degree in Interior Design, which has enabled her to excel in architectural photography for several prominent writers/producers, celebrities, socialites and designers in Los Angeles and New Mexico. Born in San Francisco, she now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her husband and five dogs.
Julien is available for assignment work and maintains an extensive stock library of imagery the Southwest. Additionally a portion of her proceeds goes to support children’s education in Africa and animal welfare in New Mexico.
Phone: (505) 466-6232 Email: julienmcroberts@mac.com Website: JulienMcRoberts.com
Kerry Gallagher
Kerry Gallagher Photography offers comprehensive photographic services for small or large companies with traditional photography and complete digital imaging capabilities.
Kerry Gallagher’s spark with photography was ignited when she was just 13 years old, always in hand, her 33 mm Pentax camera.
Inspired by the brilliance of the southwestern light, Kerry Gallagher relocated from the New York suburbs to Santa Fe in 1981 and has been photographing the New Mexico landscape’s and it’s people ever since. An award winning freelance photographer with a contemporary flair, Kerry is dedicated to creating exceptional images.
Kerry studied photography and fine arts at the university of New Mexico; her extensive experience in the southwestern and aboriginal arts has influenced her images greatly.
Kerry specializes in fine art photography, portrait, events, Landscape, assignment & architecture photography with excellent digital capture. Kerry donates her photographic services to many charities in New Mexico such as the American Cancer Society, St. Vincent’s Foundation & Southwest Cares to name a few.
Phone: (505) 316-2757 Website: KerryGallagherImages.com
Marcia Keegan
Marcia Keegan has been photographing throughout all 19 New Mexico Pueblos and Navajo country for more than 30 years, documenting traditional Southwestern Indian lives, culture and landscapes with bold, compelling shapes and colors. Celebrating the natural beauty of the Southwest and the traditions of the Native Americans who are her friends, she shares their spiritual involvement with the land and effectively conveys it through her work. She is the only photographer to have taken pictures in all nineteen New Mexico Pueblos.
In 1988 Keegan and her husband, Harmon Houghton, started their own company, Clear Light Publishing. As vice-president and co-owner, she has been involved with book design, production, editorial supervision and publicity/promotion. In keeping with her devotion to the ideals of a peaceful world, the focus of the publishing company has been books to enhance the human spirit.
Keegan has worked for peace and justice by showing the public through her books how the traditional values of the Pueblo and Navajo peoples need to be protected and cherished, how these values of the sacredness of all life and harmony with the natural world can lead to world peace. Keegan has traveled to the Himalayans and been involved in the Tibetan culture as well. In 1979, she introduced the Dalai Lama to the Hopi.
Website: MarciaKeegan.com Website: ClearLightBooks.com Email: Marcia@ClearLightBooks.com
Greg Lewandowski
My wife and I have lived in New Mexico for more than a decade and I usually hike with my dog and trusty companion Luna. Three years ago when I first ventured into the wilderness area of northern New Mexico I knew I had discovered something that was exceptional and inspiring. I not only found a place that touched me deeply but silenced me with its beauty and majesty. As my love of the wilderness deepened, a strong passion for photography emerged.
After learning more about photography from many sources I gradually upgraded my camera and added specific lenses. I learned about wilderness survival and purchased the appropriate equipment for day hikes and multiple overnight backpacking excursions. I soon discovered that the wilderness demands rigorous preparation and awareness. In addition to topographic maps, compass, GPS, and an emergency rescue device, I also carry about 12 pounds of camera equipment.
My hope is that some of these photos may awaken something in you the way this incredible land has changed my life.
Email: kenshographics@hughes.net
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