Photograph by Suzanne Mathia
Best Picture 2024
Grand Prize Stan Rose This wintry photograph, made in an aspen grove near Arizona Snowbowl in the San Francisco Peaks, evokes a feeling of wanting to be there, Photo…
An unidentified man poses in a cement plant at the site of Theodore Roosevelt Dam in a Walter J. Lubken photo from March 1905. The dam was completed six years later, creating Theodore Roosevelt Lake.
The Dam Photographer
Countless American photographers could be considered really famous — Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Annie Leibowitz and Dorothea Lange are just a few of them. One lesser-known photographer, though, had…
Elizabeth Compton Hegemann poses with two kachina plaques, one completed and one in progress, at the Hopi village of Oraibi in 1927. | Elizabeth Compton Hegemann
Towering Figure
During their brief marriage in the 1920s, writer and photographer Elizabeth Compton Hegemann and her husband, Michael Harrison, lived on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, where Harrison worked as…
Night sky viewed through narrow walls of a slo canyon along the Colorado River in the GrandCanyon. By Dawn Kish
Dawn Kish: This Is My Story
The first time I slept under the stars in Blacktail Canyon — a slot canyon at Mile 120 of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon — was in 1998, when I was on an artists’ river trip. Dave Edwards, who…
James Porter pictured in a doorway at Terra Farm and Manor. By Jill Richards
Terra Farm and Manor
As we drive past a metal gate and make our way up a rugged dirt road, acclaimed chef James Porter (pictured) can hardly contain himself — he’s anxious to share his special place in Central Arizona.…
MacAlpine's in Phoenix
Phoenix Institution MacAlpine's Receives Historic Preservation Grant
One of Phoenix's best-known dining destinations is receiving a grant intended to help protect its legacy. The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced July 29 that MacAlpine's Diner and…
Runners compete in the 2017 Canyon de Chelly Ultra, an exclusive 55-kilometer race that takes participants to the bottom of the canyon. The annual race is capped at 150 participants. | Caitlin O'Hara
Everyone’s Running According to Plan
It’s early morning up on the Navajo Nation, the sun beginning to rise, the red-rock cliffs slanted in shadow. And Shaun Martin is there to greet the day. Martin runs each morning in tribute to the…
Sean Parker happened to be leading a Milky Way photography workshop near San Manuel, northeast of Tucson, the night the aurora borealis appeared in Arizona. He made this photo at about 1 a.m.
Oh, What A Night!
Editor’s Note: On the evening of May 10, at 3:54 p.m. Arizona time, the National Weather Service observed conditions resulting from an extreme geomagnetic storm in outer space, in which electrons…