- FEBRUARY 2018 -
The beautiful West
Santa Fe, Taos, Abiquiù On the road in the heart of America’s deserts
21 shots by Lauren Berley to recount the silence, the immense spaces, the signs of life and the creativity of artists along the wild tracks of New Mexico June 2017
Colorado The magnificent Mexican rodeo at Longmont
Lauren Berley, in this extraordinary photographic report, captures feats and details that make every image an icon. Rodeos first started in Spain and Mexico to test the skill of the vaqueros in rounding up cows and it arrived only later in the United States. The Mexican rodeo at Longmont, in the state of Colorado, is a splendid example of equestrian skills and Mexican folklore on US soil, following a shared tradition and passion. No wall erected by politicians will ever be able to separate those who love the arts of horsemanship May 2017
4th of July in Santa Fe
The most deeply felt festivity in the US is certainly the 4th of July, commemorating the Declaration of Independence of 1776, when the 13 colonies seceded from the United Kingdom.It is celebrated with parades, fireworks and barbecues and is the time when the popular imagination runs riot, using the colors of the American flag in the most creative ways.
Madeleine Gehrig reports on the 4th of July in Santa Fe (New Mexico) where, with her usual ability to capture evocative images and telling details, she describes the strange or traditional outfits, eccentric accessories and vintage cars, in a triumph of patriotism and all-American stars and stripes September 2016
The spell-binding geometries of the White Sands National Monument
In New Mexico, at sixteen miles south-west of Alamogordo, in the mountain basin of Tularosa, this immense field of white sand dunes made of gypsum crystals stretches for 275 square miles. It is the largest area of gypsum dunes in the world. Madeleine Gehrig has caught its rare beauty; “paintings” rather than photos, in which the magic of these snow-white sands is highlighted July 2016
Arizona Blue Mesa. Where the petrified forest is tinged with blue
A new photographic report by Madeleine Gehrig of the Petrified Forest National Park, in the area known as Blue Mesa due to the grayish-blue color of the clay holding the logs.Along the road leading into the heart of the Park, one is totally immersed in a wild lunar landscape: the fragile soil makes paths impossible May 2016
Arizona The Enchantment of the Petrified Forest
Thirty-one splendid photos by Madeleine Gehrig dedicated to the arid and fascinating landscapes in the Arizona Petrified Forest National Park, about 25 miles east of Holbrook, county seat of Navajo County.The incredible sight of the trees that, buried under volcanic eruptions, waterways, ashes and sediment, have become petrified over millions of years January 2016
Bisti Badlands Moonscapes in New Mexico
In Madeleine Gehrig’s extraordinary photographic feature all the fascination of the Bisti Wilderness Area, known also as the “Bisti Badlands”. 4000 acres of wild, incredibly beautiful but little known territory.It’s in the desert of San Juan Basin, in the North West of New Mexico December 2015
Journey to the West, where the earth ends San Francisco
by Paolo Mele The Lands ends of the world, finibus terrae for the Ancients, are lands of unknown horizons, extreme places. One of the most famous and fascinating, the start and finish of the American continent, is San Francisco October 2015
“Christ in the Desert” Mysticism in the Abiquiu desert
In Madeleine Gehrig’s magnificent photo report the pictures of the Abiquiu desert (New Mexico) alternate with those of the Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery of “Christ in the Desert”, perfectly integrated in the surrounding landscape.The desert itself, arid but fascinating, and the building, austere but welcoming, bid us to meditate and pray May 2015
Among the hot-air balloons in the sky over Albuquerque
Every year at Albuquerque, in New Mexico, they hold the world’s biggest hot-air balloon meeting: the “Balloon Fiesta”.The artist Madeleine Gehrig has taken these extraordinary photos from one of the balloons for Bridge Puglia USA.
The festival, which lasts several days, began in 1972 as the main event in the fiftieth birthday celebrations for 770 Kob Radio. Up to 600 balloons can take part and each day there are over 100,000 spectators at the launch sites, not counting the people gathered at the landing zones and all over Albuquerque January 2015
Branding, castrating and tagging. Images of the rough, old-fashioned work of cowboys
A day at Bonanza Creek Ranch in Cerillos (New Mexico).Through the careful lens of Madeleine Gehrig, the crucial details of the cowboys' work during the process of branding, castrating and tagging the herds July 2013
My America on the road
Asphalt, desert, old cars, a dog resting in a rusty truck and the ever-changing, always immense skies of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and California.No American dream and glossy images but a highly evocative, solitary, wild and luminous America in the photo reportage by Lauren Berley June 2012
Cowboys, cowgirls and horses A voyage into today’s world of the Western
The photo reportage by Lauren Berley reawakens the collective imagination about the trades that used to be typical of the American West.“In a politically and religiously conflicted modern world – affirms the photographer – we are overrun with web and HD images of conflict, confusion and fear. Seldom are we given the chance to truly experience the tactile aspects of technology-proof tradition. Making a custom rope to sort a calf on the range, tie him down, and lance an abscess on a calf’s eye... These are the traditions that are passed across multiple generations. And there is an overwhelming sense of pride and love, even in the most modest of ranch households” April 2012
A special sunset on the hills of New Mexico
The ashes of a fire rarefied in the sky, on the desert hills of New Mexico, were, for artist Madeleine Gehrig, the starting-point for realising, through her camera lens, an interpretation of the oniric, graphic, magical... September 2011
Spring in New Mexico amidst flowers and stone
Madeleine Gehrig’s magic images catch details of nature’s rare beauty in Santa Fe County. Graphic etchings in the rock, skies of deep blue, small bushes and incredible blossom… May 2011