The New Mexicans documents Kevin Bubriski’s two-year stay in New Mexico in the early 1980s. A young photographer fresh from the Peace Corps in Nepal, Bubriski fully immersed himself as a still photographer on the set of the film The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez. This led to assignments as a local news photographer — work that would connect him to native New Mexicans from all walks of life.
With his camera always at the ready, Bubriski covered events from rodeos to mud wrestling, to the solemn funeral of a murdered Santa Fe priest, and politicians on the campaign trail – while remaining open to serendipitous encounters along the way.
He also documents his extraordinary and insightful access to the residents of the State Penitentiary of New Mexico, the local arts community, and public ceremonies and dances of the Northern Pueblos. With the fresh eye of a newcomer to the state who had already explored remote corners of the world, Bubriski has created a moving and evocative record of a moment in time in the northern reaches of the Land of Enchantment.
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About the Author:
Kevin Bubriski has exhibited worldwide; his work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography, all in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. A recipient of numerous high-profile fellowships, Bubriski worked for nine years in Nepal, and has photographed his journeys to India, Tibet, and Bangladesh. Author of Portrait of Nepal (Chronicle), which won the Golden Light Documentary Award in 1993: Hindu and Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal (Inner Traditions), and The Uyghurs (George F. Thompson). Bubriski lives in Vermont with his wife.
