About Monroe Gallery

Celebrating 23 years in Santa Fe in 2025, the Gallery is open daily 10 - 5 (due to occasional travel to outside exhibits we suggest calling to confirm).

Monroe Gallery of Photography specializes in 20^th- and 21^st-century photojournalism and humanist imagery—images that are embedded in our collective consciousness and which form a shared visual heritage for human society. Many of these photographs not only moved the public at the time of their publication but maintain the power to stir the consciousness (and conscience) today. They set social and political changes in motion, transforming the way we live and think—in a shared medium that is a singular intersectionality of art and journalism.

Monroe Gallery of Photography is owned and staffed exclusively by Sidney S. Monroe and Michelle A. Monroe. Sidney and Michelle maintain extensive personal connections with important photographers, clients, collectors, dealers, estates, auction houses, and archives worldwide. They have consulted with photographers, estates, and archives to curate and organize programs and exhibitions, and advise private collectors, museums, and corporations, with an emphasis on building collections with a variety of prudent focuses. Sidney and Michelle are also regularly invited to speak to photography workshops and seminars, as well as to college and high school student groups. Together, they have more than 50 years of curatorial and academic experience, and are acknowledged experts on the life and work of a number of famed LIFE Magazine photojournalists, including Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bill Eppridge, Bob Gomel, and Carl Mydans; Tony Vaccaro, and several other important 20th and 21st century Photojournalists. Monroe Gallery was the recipient of the 2010 Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Excellence in Photojournalism.

Monroe Gallery of Photography has placed work in numerous important private and public collections such as The J. Paul Getty Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian National Museum of American History, The George Eastman Museum, The Spencer Museum, The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The Figge Museum, The Snite Museum at The University of Notre Dame, The Williams College Museum of Art, The Aikiing Tribal Museum, The Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine, and The Ackland Museum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, among others. Additionally, the gallery has placed photographs with many corporate collections around the world.

Gallery exhibitions are often featured in local and international press, please follow the NEWS tab on the website.

Although many record prices have been set recently, it is exciting to note that, on the whole, photography is among the most affordable of the fine arts. We invite you to view some of the best work in this indispensably vital field at Monroe Gallery of Photography.

  “I think some of the greatest photojournalism contains information that we were never meant to see”   In the Gallery with Sid and Michelle Monroe

Monroe Gallery of Photojournalism brings art and history together

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The Association of International Photography Art Dealers