Wed, Mar 25
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Craig Varjabedian, Into the Great White Sands
Essays by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Dennis Ditmanson, and Jim Eckles. Winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Photography. Craig will be in conversation with James Ayers, Assistant Director, University of New Mexico Press. Craig's images will hang in CWB's gallery mid-March - mid-April.
Date, Time & Location
Mar 25, 2026, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom.
Order Into the Great White Sands (publishes 3/3, $39.95, paperback) online from CWB here or call the store to order (505) 988-4226
Award-winning photographer Craig Varjabedian has spent decades photographing the many moods of the magnificent and ever-changing landscape of New Mexico’s White Sands National Monument. His photographs reveal snow-white dunes of gypsum, striking landforms, storms and stillness, panoramic vistas and breathtaking sunsets, intricate windblown patterns in the sand, ancient animal tracks, exquisite desert plants, and also the people who come to experience this place that is at once spectacular yet subtle. Varjabedian’s evocative color images provide the reader with an almost palpable sense of this extraordinary place.
These photographs are enriched by several essays written by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, noted poet and author; Dennis Ditmanson, retired White Sands National Monument superintendent; Jim Eckles, retired Missile Range public affairs officer; and…