Sunrise illuminates a group of seven cranes as they fly in front of the full moon. By Jack Dykinga
Jack Dykinga: This Is My Story
Ever since I began my career as a news photographer in Chicago in the 1960s, I’ve felt that photography is something I’d do for free. (It’s nice to be paid for it, though.) For me, this art form goes…
Lindsey Egan (left) and Melissa Wright pose in a desert setting with the Superstition Mountains in the background. By Shondiin Mayor
Women Who Explore
Melissa Wright saw her life branching out before her like a green fig tree. Mirroring a passage in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, she was overwhelmed by the figs she could have chosen, each…
California condors scavenging
Navajo Nation Joins Group Working to Prevent Lead Poisoning in Animals
Arizona's largest Indigenous tribe has joined an effort that aims to prevent scavenging animals from suffering lead poisoning from eating the remains of animals shot by hunters. The Navajo Nation's…
A young man in a black beanie and glasses calibrates a large telescope.
Grand Canyon's New Astronomer in Residence
Grand Canyon, Ariz. — Grand Canyon Conservancy (GCC) is excited to welcome Stephen Hummel as the first Astronomer in Residence onsite at Grand Canyon National Park this year. Hummel is the Dark Skies…
A spot near John Ford Point offers a dramatic view of the weathered buttes of Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation. | Jerry Jacka
Photographs by Jerry D. Jacka
One of Jacka’s favorite Arizona spots was Coal Mine Canyon, southeast of Tuba City on the Navajo Nation. “Each time I take a photograph, I feel as though I am capturing a moment in time,” he wrote. “…
Superstition Mountain is the title of this painting by David Swing, depicting the iconic mountain with a foreground of a dirt road through desert landscape dotted by saguaros.
The Nature Of An Artist
CORONADO TRAIL   LAKE MEAD   THE NATURAL BRIDGE   Cochise Head…
Students, teachers and other staff at a federal Indian boarding school in the Kingman area pose for a photo around 1900. | University of Southern California DIGITAL LIBRARY, California Historical Society Collection
Painful Lessons
The only things my mother heard were the sounds of children’s cries, whimpers and soft footsteps as they fled into the night and she hid in fear beneath a thin, unfamiliar white blanket. Reduced to a…
The gas-powered riverboat Aztec passes through a movable bridge at Yuma in 1902. The Aztec moved cargo on the Colorado River between Yuma and Needles, California, until 1905, when a severe sandstorm caused it to wreck a few miles downstream from Needles. | THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
Rollin' On The River
Behind the moored steamboat Gila, a bridge used by the Southern Pacific Railroad spans the Colorado River at Yuma in a photo from the late 1870s or early 1880s. In the…