Susan Ressler is an award-winning artist, author, and educator who has been making social documentary photographs for more than fifty years. Her work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Library and Archives Canada, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and many other collections. Her first monograph, Executive Order: Images of 1970s Corporate America, was published by Daylight Books in 2018. Dreaming California: High End, Low End, No End in Sight, was released by Daylight in 2023. Her retrospective will launch in spring 2025. Ressler makes her home in Taos, New Mexico, USA.
I continue to photograph at the Rio Grande Gorge whenever possible, and as the second image (made this past May attests), it never disappoints.