Contributors

In 2009, retired photojournalist Rick Carver had the idea to create a book of photographs depicting the state of New Mexico. Specifically, he wanted to showcase the aspects of the state you may not see in the tour guides, from the plight of the silvery minnow in the Rio Grande to the iconoclastic fashion of the Roller Derby skaters. Carver recruited a cadre of photographers and writers, encouraging them to go out and cover nearly every event and moment of interest in the state over the year 2010. Together with Santa Fe chef Stacy Pearl, who authored much of text in the book, Carver set out to make a book. The result is the book “A Year or So In New Mexico”, a labor of love, with which Carver aims to promote fundraising for the Esperanza Shelter with the proceeds from the sale of the books.

Click here to read about the photographers and authors who contributed to the book.

Rick Carver, Editor, grew up in northern California, where he developed a love for his environment which would influence his whole life. He started his career as a photojournalist, documenting human rights issues all over the world. Rick served in the US Navy and is a veteran of the Vietnam War. He moved to New Mexico from northern California some ten years ago. Now retired, Rick, forever a photographer, can often be found wandering around the southwest with his giant camera bag, photographing anything from a hovering Rufus hummingbird to a scenic, yet abandoned outhouse.

Stacy Pearl is from Brooklyn, New York. While at Rhode Island School of Design she studied painting and printmaking. She soon realized making a living was a challenge she had never realistically planned for. This led her to quit art school and return to New York to apprentice at some of the city’s most interesting catering kitchens and restaurants. She soon diversified and became a private chef to the rich and famous. In an effort to find an interesting and amusing life, she lived and worked in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Rome, Italy. For three years she lived in London, England, cooking southwestern cuisine in a trendy Notting Hill restaurant. Upon returning to the States, she moved to the southwest. In addition to cooking professionally for over 30 years, Stacy has a weekly radio show on Santa Fe public radio KSFR about food called “Mouth of Wonder,” and is a partner, along with her husband James Guld, in a modernist furniture business.

Patrick Dick

Jodi Newton

Karen Novotny

KarlaQuintana

Dick Brown

Matilda Smith

John Peek

Paula Aragon

Mary Beath

Jen Alexander

Gosia Allison=Kosior

Philip V. Augustin

Tracy Bullington

Devyn Dennison

Jeana Francis

Geri Hongeva

Penny Martin

Jill Markstein

Barbara J. McGuire

Susan G. Purdy

Mac Read

Rose Marie Slade

Annette Montano

Susan Ressler