Twenty-Four Hours: A Day in the Life of Taos

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24 HOURS A DAY IN THE LIFE OF TAOS

BOWERS BRENNAN BUNDY COX DAHL-BREDINE HAYDEN LUJAN O’DONNELL ROMANCITO THOMPSON TIMMS ZIMMERMAN

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\ from the editor: THROUGH THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDERS

Taos is blessed with being home to many talented and illustrious photographers. Twelve of them were asked to participate in a new project — a challenge, if you will —

by The Taos News: Capture Taos and its environs on film during a specific time block over a 24-hour period.

Travel around with the lauded photographers, seeing what they saw as Taos goes about its day and night from 6 p.m. on Jan. 4, 2019 to 6 p.m. on Jan. 5, 2019.

Inside this inaugural edition of Twenty-Four Hours: A Day in the Life of Taos are the beautiful and poignant fruits of their labor and displays of love for a place.

This publication is an endearing, up close and personal scrapbook of a unique, unpretentious Southwestern town. It’s what your coffee table is missing.

S C OT T GE R D E S , special sections editor

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\ contributors

24 HOURS A DAY IN THE LIFE OF TAOS

owner Robin Martin

publisher Chris Baker

managing editor Staci Matlock

special sections editor Scott Gerdes

creative director Karin Eberhardt

advertising director Chris Wood

SCOT T GERDES

production manager Willard Avery II

The 24 Hours: A Day in the Life of Taos photographers in front from left: Kathryn Hayden, Kathleen Brennan, Zoë Zimmerman, Debbie Lujan and Rick Romancito. In back from left: Megan Bowers, Terry Thompson, C. Jim Cox, Chris Dahl-Bredine and Steven Bundy.

Not pictured: Morgan Timms and Jim O'Donnell.

Artist statements begin on page 58.

photographer Morgan Timms

copy editor Amy Boaz

contact The Taos News 226 Albright Street Taos, NM 87571 (575) 758-2241

taosnews.com For free copies of this magazine, please call (575) 758-2241 or email circ@taosnews.com

on the cover 2:48 a.m.

A coyote is spotted at the intersection of Paseo del Cañon West and Paseo del Pueblo Sur in Taos.

Photographer: Morgan Timms

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4:17 a.m.

The storied and historic San Francisco de AsĂ­s Catholic Church in Ranchos de Taos is an amazing structure in any season at any time of day. It has served as a model for many famous artists for decades.

Photographer: Kathleen Brennan

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7:13 a.m.

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2:05 p.m.

A raven at dawn coasts over U.S. Highway 64 west.

A Taos Pueblo woman prays at the altar in the San Geronimo Church.

Photographer: Chris Dahl-Bredine

Photographer: Debbie Lujan

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8:50 p.m.

Adobe Bar bartender David Crowley: ‘As long as I keep shaking margaritas on a Friday night, the people keep on shaking their booty.’

Photographer: C. Jim Cox

8:59 p.m.

A happy patron at Historic Taos Inn’s Adobe Bar. ‘I’ve been coming to the inn for 20 years and working here nearly half that long. All these people; I’ve watched them grow up and fall in love, get divorced, pass away and experience life. This night is like any other. It’s profound in it’s own mundane way.’

– Clint Murphy Photographer: C. Jim Cox

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5:06 a.m.

Street and vehicle lights of passing cars and a Waste Management truck create an abstract image as they rumble down Taos’ main drag.

Photographer: Kathleen Brennan

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8:30 a.m.

There is flurry of daily activity at Taos Ski Valley prior to the opening of the lifts including shoveling the Magic Carpet.

Photographer: Kathryn Hayden

3:01 p.m.

Elias Cisneros commandeers the Zamboni to smooth out the ice rink at the Youth and Family Center. Left to right: Natalia Valerio, Elayna Gonzales and Emmabelle Thomas; a Taos mom guides her daughter; Melissa MuĂąoz; and 10-yearold cousins Zaydrian CĂłrdova and Darian Mondragon take to the ice.

Photographer: Terry Thompson

3:16 p.m.

It's chilly and snowy outside, but 7-year-old Rio Murphy enjoys a more summer-like atmosphere as he zips down the water slide at the Youth and Family Center, while other kids play catch.

Photographer: Terry Thompson

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4:26 a.m.

Giant gas station employee Priscilla Chacón and patron Rick Meadows help hold down the fort.

Photographer: Kathleen Brennan

4:30 a.m.

Diane Rodriguez brews coffee at the Giant gas station in Ranchos de Taos — a popular stop for people traveling south.

Photographer: Kathleen Brennan

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Taos Pueblo Portraiture: The Photographic Studies of E. I. Couse

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The painter, a founder of the Ben Lujan (Taos Pueblo), 1915. Photograph by E. I. Couse; image scanned from a contact print of the original negative.

Lujan regarded Couse as his adoptive father. He began to pose for the painter in 1902 at the age of 10 and continued to do so until Couse’s death in 1936.

Taos Society of Artists, used his photos as compositional tools. The resulting stunning images are windows not only into his process but into the life of Taos people in the early 20th century.

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2:08 p.m.

A “Pride� bowling night filled the lanes at Gutters. The newest addition to the Taos entertainment scene hosts many special community events.

Joey Provencher from Taos tries to get the best angle.

Photographer: C. Jim Cox

Photographer: Terry Thompson

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12:30 p.m.

12:18 p.m.

From left, instructor Miss Coco Blu and student Tera Muskrat of Taos School of Burlesque

Camille Cooper, puppeteer/ performance artist and New Mexico School for the Arts student

Photographer: Zoë Zimmerman

Photographer: Zoë Zimmerman

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12:00 p.m.

Travis Webb, once Argentine tango, swing and salsa teacher, turned full-time blacksmith

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1:47 p.m.

Cowgirls Ash Loveless, barrel racer/ ranch hand, and Charly Burnette, team roper/ranch hand

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5:04 p.m.

World Cup baristas Michael Jensen and Jack Lorang

12:22 p.m.

Taos volunteer firefighter Isaiah Fernandez Photographer: ZoĂŤ Zimmerman

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4:05 a.m.

The universe over Taos from the Rift Trail overlook just south of town.

Photographer: Kathleen Brennan

7:38 p.m.

San Francisco de AsĂ­s Catholic Church in Ranchos de Taos is a historic place of faith and an architectural blessing.

Its unique curves made from organic materials have inspired photographers and painters for decades.

Photographer: Steven Bundy

12:07 p.m.

Volunteers from the Taos Men’s Shelter chipping and shoveling away down Albright Street.

Photographer: Rick Romancito

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8:15 a.m.

Quite a bit of activity that goes on at the base of Taos Ski Valley prior to operations surrounds Ski Patrol prep — checking out the snowmobiles, necessary equipment, loading the chairs and a little play time for the rescue dogs who were running up and down the mountain prior to their work day.

Photographer: Kathryn Hayden

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10:17 a.m.

6:02 p.m.

Taos artist Ed Sandoval can be seen through the open hood of his infamous vintage blue truck while working on a painting outside his gallery on Paseo del Pueblo Norte.

“Human jukebox� Jimmy Stadler in his editing studio and instrument storage area. The walls are covered in photos showing a lifetime of music and family.

He played a couple songs on one of his favorite old Fender Stratocasters.

Photographer: Megan Bowers

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2:15 p.m.

7:26 p.m.

Jeralyn Lujan-Lucero works on her micaceous clay sculpture at Sagebrush Deer Studio/Gallery at Taos Pueblo.

Joshua, the gas station attendant at Smith’s Food and Drug, handles purchases from the attendant cubicle.

Photographer: Debbie Lujan

Photographer: Steven Bundy

11:26 a.m.

4:30 p.m.

Mary Esther Winters welcomes customers into her cozy café at Taos Pueblo.

Photographer: Megan Bowers

Rebecca Córdova cleaning up after a bake sale outside Super Save to raise money to support the children of Celeste Montoya, who was recently killed in a car accident.

Photographer: Jim O'Donnell

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8:50 a.m.

Miguel sharpens skis for that perfect edge at Taos Ski Valley.

Some of the ski area's operations literally take place away from any daylight — down in a basement — such as the ski tuning shop.

Photographer: Kathryn Hayden

11:17 a.m.

Mary Esther Winters and her grandson Marshall Winters run Pueblo Café at Taos Pueblo, which serves local favorite frybread made with Taos Pueblo blue corn and Indian salt.

Photographer: Megan Bowers

11:48 a.m.

Julia Fernandez de Maez and her students practice for their Southwest Showgirls performance at Taos Mesa Brewing. Monique Pacheco dances at front, Lisa Vigil center and Fernandez de Maez in the back.

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7:25 a.m.

A sunrise star over the Río Grande Gorge begins a new day.

Photographer: Chris Dahl-Bredine

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5:50 p.m.

“Talking to God” outside Smith’s Food and Drug.

Photographer: Jim O'Donnell

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5:38 p.m.

Recently engaged Nina and Dwayne get ready for a night on the town.

They figured it was time for some dancing as they get ready to leave Smith's parking lot.

Photographer: Jim O'Donnell

8:19 p.m.

‘I had woken up that morning with a full-blown cold, followed by a fender bender and it all went downhill from there. So by the time I stumbled into Chipper’s (Thompson) studio for rehearsal that evening I was feeling rather tattered. Within 20 minutes of playing with the boys my stress had fallen away, my mental state smoothed out and harmony restored. Those old adages are true; music soothes the savage beast and, yes indeed, it can save your soul” — Bone Orchard singer Carol Morgan-Eagle Photographer: C. Jim Cox

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2:32 p.m.

Andy drives up from EspaĂąola to Taos Pueblo most days to have lunch and do crossword puzzles.

Photographer: Debbie Lujan

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3:35 p.m.

A north side Taos Pueblo home.

Photographer: Debbie Lujan

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10:38 a.m.

Future skiers in the making at Taos Ski Valley.

Photographer: Kathryn Hayden

10:43 a.m.

A ski student’s first carpet ride of the day.

Photographer: Kathryn Hayden

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4:15 p.m.

Santiago Fresquez and Junior in the back of their parent’s pickup outside of Super Save Foods.

Photographer: Jim O'Donnell

4:45 p.m.

4:10 p.m.

At the Super Save Foods parking lot, one of the Drake boys of Carson, New Mexico, shows off the calves they just purchased for a 4-H project.

Brie Vigil and her mom just left Super Save Foods with ingredients for making pie. This was to be Brie’s first pie made all on her own.

Photographer: Jim O'Donnell

Photographer: Jim O'Donnell

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10:06 p.m.

Ceramic artist Mike Epperly smooths the walls of a mug with a rib in Logan Wannamaker’s ottery studio in Arroyo Seco. Epperly moved to Taos in May 2018 and is working as Wannamaker’s apprentice.

Photographer: Morgan Timms

10:57 9.m.

Chris Caudill stokes the bonfire with freshly chopped wood outside Taos Mesa Brewing.

Photographer: Morgan Timms

1:09 a.m.

Tom Pryor laughs with Paul Greenhaw as he packs up his drums after Greenhaw performed with the Infamous Stringdusters at the Alley Cantina.

Photographer: Morgan Timms

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2:27 p.m.

Cameron Martinez Sr. carts wood into Taos Pueblo.

Photographer: Debbie Lujan

5:21 p.m.

Jeremy gathers up baskets from the Smith’s Food and Drug parking lot.

Photographer: Jim O'Donnell

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5:57 a.m.

Dolores Ortiz, an employee at Michael’s Kitchen for 45 years, says she even worked at Spiveys Restaurant, the eatery that preceded Michael’s back in the day.

Photographer: Rick Romancito

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6:32 a.m.

Gina Apodaca, co-owner and manager for the past 14 years of Michael’s Kitchen, prepares eggs for the breakfast crowd.

Photographer: Rick Romancito

6:08 a.m.

Bring on the bacon.

Photographer: Rick Romancito

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Maria Muñoz finishes the cinnamon rolls.

Daniela Marquez chops lettuce for enchiladas at Michael’s Kitchen.

Daniel and Mike set out loaves of bread on the counter.

Photographer: Rick Romancito

Photographer: Rick Romancito

Photographer: Rick Romancito

It’s almost 6 a.m. and the crew is already hard at work preparing for the 7 a.m. breakfast rush at Michael’s Kitchen.

Photographer: Rick Romancito

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5:52 a.m.

Taos Ski Valley slopes are groomed at dusk.

Photographer: Kathryn Hayden

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11:17 p.m.

7:37 a.m.

Under the light of his headlamp, Chris Caudill chops wood to help enliven a bonfire outside Taos Mesa Brewing.

A rabbit greets the morning near the Río Grande Gorge Bridge. At 565 feet, it’s the seventh tallest bridge in the United States.

Photographer: Morgan Timms

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8:07 p.m.

1:04 a.m.

The Milky Way as seen from Blueberry Hill mesa.

Alley Cantina patrons make their way home from Taos Plaza after a night out.

Photographer: Steven Bundy

Photographer: Morgan Timms

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Megan Bowers

Kathleen Brennan

Steven Bundy

C. Jim Cox

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Megan Bowers is a Level II Visual Arts endorsed teacher. She attended Hampshire College for Creative Writing and then went on to graduate from Parsons School of Design in N.Y.C. Megan then worked as a freelance magazine photographer and staff photographer at Sotheby’s in N.Y.C. for 10 years. After making Taos her home, Megan worked as the chief photographer for The Taos News as well as the Santa Fe New Mexican.

Megan was a contract Associated Press photojournalist and a freelance journalist for 15 years. Throughout her journalism career Megan won numerous national and state awards and taught photography at the University of New Mexico for Taos High School as well as the Discovery Program. After receiving a Los Alamos scholarship, Megan obtained her teaching degree

“Kathleen Brennan’s large and diverse

Steven Bundy is a fine art

body of photographic work reflects

photographer whose central subject

the life of a self-directed woman who

matter focuses on landscape and

has followed her heart and connected

Southwest Americana in and around

the threads of her experience to enrich

the western United States.

and intensify her vision. The awards, accolades, and recognition her work engenders today are the result of a long and remarkable journey.”

— Remarkable Women of Taos

Steven attempts to blend his 36-year background in civil engineering and its associated “left-brain”analytical thinking with his 18 years of Fine Art Photography experience and its “right-brain”

Charles “Jim” Cox is a Taos artist, photographer, farm manager and Vet Corps member.

“Much of my artwork in the mediums of oil, acrylic and pencil illustration has been inspired by 30 years of living in the Southwestern United States near and among Native American indigenous people. My photography has become my footprint in

From an early age she was drawn to

creativity into all of his photographic

visual art and began photographing

images. His engineering background

seriously at the age of 15, using an old

has influenced his sense of composition

range finder camera. In 1973, Brennan

as he finds his eye naturally drawn

moved to Albuquerque where she

to the geometric designs that exist in

but it wasn’t until the year 2002 — af-

completed a degree in photography

natural and manmade forms all

ter receiving a diagnosis of a potentially

from the University of New Mexico.

around us.

Soon after she began experimenting with a variety of techniques, including hand-colored photographs, Polaroid transfers and cyanotypes.

Located in Taos, New Mexico, Steven uses this central location to travel and discover the back roads of the Southwest to capture and preserve the

the Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado area.

“My love for art has been lifelong,

terminal illness — that I began a full commitment to my passion for art, a commitment that I feel helped me survive and overcome that illness.

“Five-year commitment to graduating

and began her career at TISA (Taos

Her love of New Mexico returned her

vast landscapes, crumbling buildings,

in Dec. 2013 from the Academy of Art

Integrated School of the Arts).

to Taos in 1992 where she now resides.

rusting forgotten cars and evidence of

University in San Francisco with the

In 2002 she made the leap to digital

diverse cultures that he finds along the

assistance of the University of New

and has applied the same sense of

way — giving them new recognition

Mexico with a Fine Arts photography

experimentation and use of alternative

and preserving them as they erode,

degree with a minor in journalism.”

techniques.

before they melt back into the earth.

His work can be seen online at

Brennan’s website is brennanstudio.com.

His work can be found online at

jimcoxartworks.net.

In 2015 Megan won a Teacher of the Year award for Taos County. Megan is recognized as a PASEO Star Teacher and is the creator and facilitator of TISA Talks, a monthly journalism page in The Taos News. Currently, Megan is the art’s curriculum coordinator and fourthgrade teacher.

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Chris Dahl-Bredine

Kathryn A. Hayden

Debbie Lujan

Jim O’Donnell

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Ultralight aerial photographer Chris

Kathryn is a fine art and studio/

Debbie Lujan is a landscape photog-

Jim O’Donnell is an award-winning

Dahl-Bredine says of his work, “To see

on-location photographer. For her

rapher who specializes in images of

wilderness advocate, author and

this spectacular world form above —

fine art work, which she shows under

her ancestral home, Taos Pueblo, New

conservation photographer based

to soar like the birds — has been a

the NM Visions (nmviz.com) banner,

Mexico. Marked by a strong sense of

in Taos, New Mexico. His work has

dream of humans since the beginning

Kathryn builds dramatic and

composition and depth, the intersec-

appeared in National Geographic Maps,

of time. I have had this same dream

thoughtful scenes by combining

tion of light and shadow evoke both

Discover, Scientific American, Ensia, Sapiens,

since I was a child. My dream became a

her images with layered textured

movement and internal rhythm. Her

BBC Travel, Sierra, New Mexico Magazine

reality with my decision to learn to fly. I

backgrounds to evoke emotional

authentic take of the distinguished ar-

and YaleEnvironment360 among others.

chose to fly something small and open

connection and response.

chitecture of the historic Taos Pueblo is

so I could really see and experience my surroundings — an ultralight aircraft.

What I see while up in the sky inspires me to document these beautiful sights through photography. Through these images I intend to convey the feeling of peace, the sense of wonder and awe that one feels while flying above the earth. This is what I experience from above.”

During the “24 Hours” project, he encountered technical difficulties with the ultralight and instead kept his feet on the ground.

Kathryn’s images have been shown in both juried and non-juried shows.

distinctive and she cites her influences as Ansel Adams and Georgia O’Keeffe.

A Fellow at the League of Conservation Writers, Jim is the author of “Notes for the Aurora Society: 1500 miles on foot

She contributes to the arts in the Taos

Lujan has shown her work at various

across Finland” and a wide range

region as vice president of the Taos Gal-

prestigious Native American juried

of environmental essays and fiction

lery Association, secretary of the Taos

shows such as the Santa Fe Indian Mar-

short stories.

Arts Festival and appointed secretary to

ket, the Heard Museum Guild Indian

the town of Taos Marketing Commit-

Fair & Market in Phoenix, the Native

tee, member of the Taos Artist Associa-

American Art Market at the Smithson-

tion and provides works to events that

ian Museum of the American Indian in

raise funds for the community.

Washington, D.C., Native Treasures in

In addition, Kathryn has a studio/ on-location photography business, Chick with Clicks (chickwithclicks.com), specializing in capturing candid images

Santa Fe, the Autry Museum American Indian Arts Marketplace in Los Angeles, and the inaugural New Mexico Artisan Market in Albuquerque.

Jim works regularly as a photographer for New Mexico nonprofits including the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, the Western Environmental Law Center and Amigos Bravos. Jim also runs communications for the Taos Land Trust. He leads yearly photography tours to Cuba and Costa Rica. Learn more at his websites

His work can be found online at

of people at family gatherings,

She is a classically trained violinist

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weddings, special events, on-location,

who has been playing for 40 years.

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in many publications.

small business and portrait work,

When she is not playing in the Roswell

including artists and their artwork.

Symphony Orchestra or the San Juan

Kathryn’s studio and gallery is located in the heart of the historic Kit Carson Road Cultural District.

Symphony in Durango, Colorado, she is working at her gallery, Summer Rain Arts in her ancestral home in Taos Pueblo. She is also the co-coordinator of the Taos Pueblo Pow Wow.

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Rick Romancito

Terry Thompson

Morgan Timms

Zoë Zimmerman

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Rick Romancito is editor of Tempo

Terry Thompson’s fascination with the

Originally from Brisbane, Australia,

Zoë Zimmerman was raised on the

magazine, the arts and entertainment

art of photography stems from his for-

Morgan Timms is a visual journalist and

south side of Taos and, launched from

magazine of The Taos News.

mer 14-year career in underwater film

multimedia producer for The Taos News.

the inspiration and support of an artisti-

A longtime employee of the hometown newspaper, Romancito has had a rich and varied career in a number of artistic pursuits. He’s been a movie actor with the likes of John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Rock Hudson, Billy Dee Williams and Dean Martin; along with being an accomplished fine artist, writer and photographer. In his work as

production. His current work continues

cally fertile community, has achieved

to emphasize the stunning natural

She graduated from Southern Illinois

an international reputation as a fine

beauty of nature, and recent projects

University with double majors in pho-

art photographer. She graduated with

have included close-up and in-motion

tojournalism and psychology. Morgan

a BFA from the Rhode Island School

subjects. Recent projects have fused

has completed photo and video intern-

of Design in 1986 and began a career

the unseen heart of subjects with a

ships at the Daily Herald in the Chicago

focused on antique photographic

vision of sharing something rarely seen

suburbs and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

processes and prowess as a printmaker.

in real-time viewing in order to create photographic art.

Prior to moving to Taos, she worked as visual journalist for the USA Today

a journalist, Romancito has covered the

He is an award-winning photogra-

arts, Native American issues, veterans

pher, who also has a specialty in the

and, on occasion, breaking news for

panoramic format. He shoots both

The Taos News, and earning numerous

stock and fine art images, as well as as-

awards from the New Mexico Press

signment work, and his award-winning

Morgan is passionate about

Association. He is of Taos and Zuni

panoramic photos are represented

collaborating with subjects, beautiful

Pueblo heritage and lives in Taos with

throughout the Southwest by art

light and quiet moments.

his wife Melody, two dogs and a cat

consultants. Thompson also sells

while also proudly watching over his

his images for use through stock

daughter Ella, her boyfriend Viento and

agencies as well as via his website,

granddaughter Layla.

TerryThompsonPhoto.com. He is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), having served as past secretary of the New Mexico board of directors.

The Day in the Life project was a firsttime journalistic endeavor with its own special challenges and lessons.

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Tennessee Network, producing photo and video packages for The Tennessean and The Jackson Sun newspapers.

Zoë’s work is included in major museum collections across the country and she is represented by The Photo-Eye Gallery in Santa Fe. As “ life abhors a vacuum,” she has returned to the south side of Taos opening a modest, natural light portrait studio in 2017.

She continues to pursue her art career while serving her community’s photographic needs through her studio Zoë Zimmerman Photography specializing in portraiture of every sort.

Her involvement in photography spans decades but her curiosity and interest in the medium has not diminished.

Her work can be seen online at zoezimmerman.com.

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