TSEKOOH COLLECTION

This newly released collection is part of a body of new works featuring the amazing landscapes of the American Southwest and specifically encompassing the Navajo Nation (Tsekooh is Navajo for Canyons - or rock-riverbed).  Growing up in England these lands captured my imagination given their exotic diversity, enormous scale and rich Native American history and culture.

This region is geologically defined by the Colorado Plateau comprising a series of tablelands located within an immense natural basin surrounded by highlands. Stream valleys that are typically narrow and widely spaced dissect the region, as do larger valleys, including many spectacular and famous canyons. These ancient mountains, plateaus and buttes (the mean elevation is over 6000ft above sea level) were created from water, wind and volcanic activity moulded over millions of years - and in doing so created a rich diversity of spectacular rock formations and patterns which I have longed to explore!

A pre-released series of these images entitled “Sand Canyons” won Gold Medal’s in the Landscape, FineArt and Nature categories at the recent 2021 New York Photography awards. ⁠⁠