Representing all things photography through exhibitions, consignments and appraisals!

It’s an exciting year ahead as we begin 2024 at our new east side Canyon Road area location on Delgado Street with a January 27 open house from 1-5pm.

Hours of operation are Tuesday - Saturday 11-5pm. We are also open by appointment. Please call us to schedule a visit at 505-577-6708.

WE HAVE PARKING! Parking is available in the big lot right across the street from the gallery or on the street!


 

 

Following Danny Lyon’s extensive retrospective New Mexico exhibition 'Journey West' at the Albuquerque Museum this Summer, Obscura Gallery is thrilled to present 'Danny Lyon: Prints and Photographs 1963 – 2023', featuring the seminal documentary photographer’s 60-year career of exploring people, places, and land through photographs and montages. Also included will be a selection of new works that capture New Mexico’s diverse landscapes, seeking to raise awareness of fires, drought, and climate change. Other featured works span Lyon’s career photographing the Civil Rights Movement, the Texas Prison System, the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle Club, and more. The latter culminated in his seminal book, 'The Bikeriders', a landmark of modern photojournalism that collected interviews and photographs, documenting the abandon and risk implied in the name of the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle Club. A feature-length film by Jeff Nichols, 'The Bikeriders', is based on Lyon’s book of the same name and will be released soon.

VIEW ALL THE WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION HERE.

DOWNLOAD THE FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE.

 

WATCH THE RECORDED ZOOM WEBINAR WITH THE CAPONIGROS HERE.

Please join us Friday, September 15 from 5-7pm for the artist reception of Two Generations: Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro, a father-and-son exhibition including over two dozen photographs highlighting the careers of this family of artists. John Paul will give an informal chat at 4pm before the reception begins.

For both artists, Santa Fe was home for over twenty years (1970 - 1990s) while Paul lived here raising John Paul in a community of artists. Now, decades later, their work will be shown together in this joint exhibition at Obscura Gallery. Responding to interest in seeing the work of father and son together, the show “Two Generations” was originally assembled from the personal collection of John Paul and first exhibited more than three decades ago – it has traveled and evolved ever since and we are thrilled to have curated our own version at Obscura Gallery.

While at first glance both artists seem a world apart -- Paul’s work in black and white gelatin silver and John Paul’s work in vivid color by use of digital means -- their work is unified by the same spiritual thread that runs through their landscape photography. They both revere the land they photograph and try to convey their responses to the land they love. They are both successful photographic interpreters of the majesty that our Earth offers us.

VIEW THE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION TOUR HERE.

VIEW THE WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION HERE.

DOWNLOAD THE FULL PRESS RELEASE HERE.

Please join us for a book signing and intimate exhibition of Henry Horenstein’s recently published, Speedway. With a foreward by Ray Magliozzi  of ‘Car Talk’, Horenstein’s images in the book “present us with a slice of what the world of motor racing looked like then [in 1972], before racing became big business, as it slowly morphed into Nascar - the worlds fastest growing sport.”