Miguel A. Gandert

Miguel Gandert was born in Española, New Mexico in 1956. He has spent the last twenty years photographing his Indo-Hispano culture and native New Mexico landscape. The subjects of Gandert’s work include cholos, bikers, lowriders, boxers, teen-age mothers, and Mexican immigrants. His book, Nuevo Mexico Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland (2000), documents the Rio Grande corridor that stretches from northern New Mexico to the Mexican border and includes the annual pilgrimages to Chimayó, New Mexico and sacred rituals and dances of the mestizo people of the upper Rio Grande.

Miguel’s photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world including the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He teaches photography at the University of New Mexico and is a recent Fulbright Scholar.