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There have been many requests
This place, Chimayó, is considered a sacred and healing location; as many as 300,000 pilgrims each year journey to this remote place seeking the healing properties of the dirt from a small room off the main church.
Outside of the church, there are various shrines like this one, all crowded with crosses, candles, and hopes.
Chimayó, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2015
(image made during Santa Fe Photographic Workshops class with Sam Abell)
Estab. 1751
This church was founded in 1751; it is considered one of the best examples of Colonial Spanish architecture in New Mexico. Some of the adobe walls, which are re-mudded periodically, are as much as six feet thick.
Las Trampas, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2015
(image made during Santa Fe Photographic Workshops class with Sam Abell)
Circle + Square (or, really, a rectangle)
The assignment for that day’s shooting was people. People?! That’s just not my deal.
Implied people, maybe? And what better implies people than a forgotten rubber band in a square of sunlight?
Albuquerque, New Mexico
photographed 3.26.2015
(image made during Santa Fe Photographic Workshops class with Sam Abell)
After lunch
This guy was using the last few minutes of his lunch break to work the crossword puzzle.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
photographed 3.26.2015
(image made during Santa Fe Photographic Workshops class with Sam Abell)
A life, reflected
In the words of Bruce Cockburn, “You’ve never seen everything.”
I’ve been to a lot of cemeteries. But until the day I went to this one, I’d never seen a marker that was a mirror.
Chimayó, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2015
(image made during Santa Fe Photographic Workshops class with Sam Abell)
One Day | One Image 