Wayne Suggs is an award-winning photographer who has photographed landscapes for over 40 years. He is a New Mexico native, who at an early age, was introduced to the wonders of nature by parents who knew the importance of having a relationship with the Great Outdoors. Wayne captures the beauty of the Southwest and shares his images not only for others to enjoy, but to help increase awareness of the necessity to preserve our precious surroundings.

Emmitt Booher is a Native New Mexican, born and raised in Eastern New Mexico. He spent his childhood living and working on a small ranch, which he credits with cultivating his appreciation of the landscape, history, and people of New Mexico. He regularly volunteers his photography skills to non-profit and conservation organizations, most notably Hawk's Aloft and the Dona Ana Arts Council. He has exhibited in group and dual shows in Texas and New Mexico. Emmitt's photographic training with film based cameras, including 4x5 field cameras, and darkroom processing has proven to be invaluable as he transitioned to working with the digital process. His goal is to present photography as an artistic medium. Influenced by work of the masters of American photography, Emmitt's black and white imagery is a natural choice in which to present his work. He is the Artist-In-Residence at the Organ Mountain Desert Peaks National Monument, he first photographer that has been accepted in that position. The residency provides an artist and public an opportunity to interact to better enhance the understanding of the public lands as well as the unique qualities an artists eye can capture. Emmitt and his wife, Rosa, live in Mesilla, New Mexico with their two rescue dogs, L. Diego and Frida K.
Artist Statement: “I seek to discover and reveal, through photography, the natural world that sometimes goes unnoticed. My goal is to evoke mindfulness and contemplation within the observer. I choose to present my photographs in black and white. This is not only an artistic decision but also driven by the need to remain true to my original visualization of the world as I see it.”

Art has been Carol Morgan-Eagle's passion since she was a child playing in her grandmother's art studio overlooking the Pacific ocean in California. Since then, she has continuously pursued her interpretive artistic vision of the world, whether it be as a musician, dancer or photographer.

While in school for Fashion Design and Illustration, Morgan-Eagle worked as an intern at LACMA in the Costumes and Textiles Department assisting the curator in photographing the resident costume collection as well as for the “Hollywood and History” exhibit. Later, she furthered her skills working for “International Models and Talent” as a photographer's assistant and stylist for many fine fashion photographers.

Drawn by the beauty and mythology of the southwest, Morgan-Eagle and her husband, Daniel Pretends Eagle, moved to the art colony of Taos, NM in 1991, where she planned to become a painter. But it was while working as Creative Director and in-house fashion photographer for Blue Fish Clothing, that she finally realized her own love for the immediacy of the camera's eye. She now works in both commercial and fine art photography. When she's not pursuing the creative muse of photography, Morgan-Eagle is a singer/songwriter who performs with her husband in their band, Bone Orchard.

Artist's Statement: “I like to blur the line between what is really there and what I see. My desire is to stir people's emotions, to touch something in their hearts that gives them hope or connects them to that deep hidden part of themselves and spurs them on to find their own inspiration in life. To reveal the beauty or the sacred or the story that is hidden in the ordinary. I find my muse in that which exists around me, of whatever sparks my imagination and sends me on my way to that place of creative satisfaction, inspired by color…shape…texture… and an alternate version of what we think we are really seeing…waiting for that moment when it suddenly all dissolves into this transcendence where the ordinary becomes extraordinary.”

“…there is really no such thing as a dull landscape or farm or town. None is without character, no habitat of man is without the appeal of the existence which originally created it…”
– J.B. Jackson

As both a cultural geographer and photographer, I am drawn to the beauty and wonder of everyday landscapes, buildings, and objects. Every place, location, or region reflects the history and culture behind its creation and of the value and importance once placed on them. I hope my photographs will evoke memories, questions, and a curiosity of what these places are and may have been. And that, while these images were taken at fixed points in time, they also remind us of Heraclitus’ observation:
“All is in flux, nothing stays still.”

Sherry Hayne is an award-winning artist who has been exhibiting her photographs internationally since 1990. Two of her photographs of White Sands National Monument were selected for the Art Bi-national 2008 exhibit and displayed at the El Paso Museum of Art and Museo de Arte de Ciudad. Juarez/INBA. In 2011-2012, she was invited to participate in a portfolio of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in Jolon, CA. In conjunction with that portfolio, her work is now included in the collection of the National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA.

Hayne is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, an internationally renowned artist colony located in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where she was an artist-in-residence in 1997 and 1999. Originally trained as a metalsmith, Hayne has been making photographs since 1989. A Michigan native, she currently resides in Carrizozo, NM. Her work is included in numerous private collections.

About her work, Hayne states: “I feel a deep affinity with nature, and my photographs are a conveyance of that relationship. I am interested in the shapes and textures of natural forms. Working on a purely intuitive level I do not want to document a location, but let it speak for itself. Slowing down and quieting myself allows me to connect with a place - that is when I am able to capture its essence.”

Theodore Greer was born in Gallup, New Mexico, where his parents and grandparents ran trading posts on the Navajo and Zuni Indian reservations. He started taking photographs with a Brownie camera that his parents gave him at seven.

He studied photography and printmaking in high school and at San Francisco Art Institute and the University of New Mexico. He has degrees in archeology and education, and has worked at innumerable jobs over the years. He has traveled and photographed throughout the western U.S., and in Mexico, South America and Europe. He has shown in Jemez Springs, Taos, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Seattle, Oakland and San Francisco. He has taught darkroom and digital photography and the Adobe Creative Suite at the University of New Mexico at Los Alamos.

He has had numerous images published in both hard-copy and online publications, as well as print sales to many private collectors. His largest sale was 270 canvases to Presbyterian Rust Medical Center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. He continues to hear from patients who are comforted and inspired by being able to immerse themselves in a scene from nature while in the hospital.

He lives with his wife Donna Lea in Jemez Springs, New Mexico, where He photographs people, landscapes and archeological sites for commercial use, publications, greeting cards and fine art images on canvas. His work can be seen at the Jemez Artisans Gallery in Jemez Springs, Fuller Lodge Art Center in Los Alamos and Tularosa Basin Gallery of Photography in Carrizozo.

MS (Sp.Ed.) LISW, was born and raised in New York City. She performed as a classical musician in the US and Europe for ten years. For the next twenty years, she provided special education and child therapy services in NYC and the Bronx. In 2001, she lived for three months in the Ecuadorian Amazon and helped an indigenous community start a kindergarten. In 2006, she moved to rural New Mexico to serve as child/adolescent behavioral health coordinator for Alamo Navajo Reservation. She also provided mental health and developmental educational consultation services in Albuquerque and Bernalillo until she retired in 2013. Currently, she is the Music Director for First Presbyterian Church in Socorro, NM. Her drawings and photographs have been displayed in NY, NJ, PA, OH, CO, CT, NV, TX and NM.

The Coincidence of Light and Line
Artist Statement: I shoot photos because there’s an inherent joy in seeing and sharing something that excites the eye, taunts the mind or makes one laugh. I like to share the good things in life. What appeals to me most are bold compositions, especially those based on shadows, lines and patterns. So much of life is worth recording and sharing, especially moments that have a special wonder to them. Wonder is what makes you stop in your tracks and appreciate what you see. That wonder may be in the form of color, composition, light, mystique, motion, humor or simply beauty. Trusting my visual instinct, I like to shoot quickly and analyze later. Later may be in the following minutes as I pursue follow-up shots or later may be adjusting the shot on the computer. Currently I'm using an iPhone XS and a Panasonic Lumix FZ-200 mirrorless camera with 600mmm telephoto capability, ideal for reaching distant subjects & foreshortening for graphic effect.

Background: New Mexico resident since 1972. Born in England, raised in Kenya, migrated to New Mexico after college back East.
Juried Shows: ArtsThrive, Albuquerque Museum 2019, 2021; Shades of Gray, Albuquerque, 2016 - 2021; Annual New Mexico Photographic Arts Show, Albuquerque, 2011-2021; New Mexico Art League, 2017-2022; Albuquerque Photographers’ Gallery Juried Shows, 2012, 2014 - 2016; Black Box Gallery, Portland OR, 2016-2020.

Sally Thomson is a freelance documentary and fine-art photographer based in Placitas, NM. Her passion lies in creating images that focus on rural environments and traditional cultures that communicate a strong sense of place. Her photographs often reflect her background in landscape architecture. She loves environmental conservation, and explore issues related to the human condition and natural world. These images represent a sampling from several bodies of work that are typical of style and approach to photography. Sally’s work has been commissioned by individuals, private corporations, and NGO’s. Her work has appeared in galleries, newspapers, annual reports, magazines and various other print and web-based media. Some of her clients include: The Vermont Rotary, Hands to Honduras Project; Santa Fe International Fold Art Market, Santa Fe New Mexico; The Seventh Generation Institute, Beaver Restoration Project and the Pike Project, Santa Fe, New Mexico, The New Mexico Land Conservancy, Santa Fe, New Mexico; The Southwest Livestock Alliance, Santa Fe, New Mexico; The Friendship Association –Baracoa, Cuba/St. Augustine, Florida.