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Monroe Gallery of Photography is honored to exhibit an important photography series by artist Eugene Tapahe titled Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project. The exhibit is on view from July 5, 2025 through September 14, 2025.We are excited to welcome Eugene Tapahe for a special Artist Talk on Thursday, August 14 at 5:30 during the renowned Santa Fe Indian Market weekend, the world’s largest Native American art market. Please contact the Gallery for more information.

"This Alabaster Grave" Book signing and artists talk Cengiz Yar - August 23, 2025, 5pm

This Alabaster Grave is Cengiz Yar’s first monograph exploring the overwhelming destruction and pain faced by the Iraqi city of Mosul, within the context of its history and unique, now largely ruined, architecture. The book questions the cost of the fight against ISIS and global war on terror as told through the lives and city that bore the brunt of its destructive force. The photographs were made between 2015 and 2023 and fluctuate between reportage and moments of contemplation. 

Cengiz (b. 1986) is a documentary photographer and editor based in El Paso, Texas. Cengiz has worked in visual journalism for over a decade, from reporting in the field to building groundbreaking online packages. He is currently a visuals editor at ProPublica, where he edits, photographs, and art-directs stories across the site. His primary focus is visual coverage of projects in the Midwest, Southwest, and Texas. Before joining ProPublica, he edited for publications like Rest of World, Roads & Kingdoms, and the Guardian.

As a photographer his work has primarily focused on human migration and the conflicts in Iraq and Syria. He is the inaugural recipient of the James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Dart Center Ochberg Fellow in Journalism and Trauma. His photography clients include Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Instagram, Google, UNHCR, and The New York Times among others.