Description: An innovative way of seeing how a major forest recovers from a devastating fire!
Brief description: Patricia Galagan is a fine-art photographer based in Santa Fe whose work often concerns the aftermath of upheaval in the landscape. Her work was part of the 2015 Fire Season show at the New Mexico Museum of Art, which has also been shown at Fototeca de Cuba in Havana and at Fotografika Gallaery near Geneva, Switzerland. She was awarded a solo show at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, by Photollucida in 2014. With her husband, Philip Metcalf, she was an artist-in-residence at Bandelier National Monument in 2015.
Review Quotes: "Philip Metcalf and Patricia Galagan's Fire Ghosts is an ambitious and impressive book. The ambition is in the belief that two artists could combine their distinct sensibilities and visual styles to create one compelling narrative on a subject of timeless significance--the fiery death and sublime rebirth of a beloved American landscape. The impressive part is that they succeeded. When, in the future, visual artists consider collaborating, this is the book they will look to for inspiration."--Sam Abell, photographer