Miguel Gandert

​Gandert is a nationally known photographer. His photographs are usually images of New Mexico and its people. You can see some of Miguel's work regarding the pursuit of happiness on the web. His depiction of the yearly pilgrimage of people to the healing earth of Chimayo, N.M., was recently featured at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at UNM. His work appears in his recent collaborative book Nuevo Mexico Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland. His artwork was displayed at the National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He photographically documents Indo-Hispano culture in the Rio Grande corridor and explore Mestizo cultural identity in the Southwest. These people do not fit any traditionally Western categories of culture.​

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