Dorie Hagler Photography specializing in editorial,social documentary and environmental portraiture. Covering New Mexico and the Southwest.

Singles

Editorial photos from New Mexico and around the world.

  
Annette Pederson from South Carolina, sings out in celebration at the inauguration of  Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.
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Firefighters along the Rio Grande river in Espanola, NM are aided by helicopters dropping fire retardant.
     
  
President Obama attends an inauguration ball Wednesday Jan.21, for his campaign staff workers.

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The day after President Obama's inauguration, junior journalist Dwight Moore visited the Lincoln memorial.
  
Art Martinez and mayordomo, Steven Montoya, clean garbage out of the acequia.  The previous evening, Montoya opened the headgate of the irrigation ditch for the first time this year.

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On Dec 2, Abel Alire waits outside for the Taos Men's Shelter to open.  Alire says, after a long waiting period he was finally approved for section eight housing.  He expects to be in his own home by Christmas.  

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Joshua Cooper doesn't plan on staying at the Taos Men's Shelter for long. Cooper said he was recently evicted from a house he shared with a roommate after a party his roommate hosted.

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As the city of Taos gets ready to close it's community freebox ,a woman who goes by the name
     
  
On the anniversary of the 1980 New Mexico State penitentiary riot, a current prisoner (whose name cannot be published) is held in a temporary cell. 

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At the annual New Mexico Boyscouts luncheon, young men line up to receive their Eagle Scout Badge, the highest honor that you can receive as a boyscout.
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Maria Blanco Mesa, mother of three, and resident of La Neuva Vida refugee camp, takes a rest from washing laundry.  Her husband works at a market selling bags of cold water.  As she describes it,
     
  
Julio Cesar Arquin and Ancelma Miranda Blanco, residents of La Nueva VIda refugee camp, fill up buckets of water at a communal faucet.  In order to bathe, wash and cook, residents of the refugee camp need to haul water to their respective sites.

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Ancelma Miranda Blanco resident of La Nueva Vida refugee camp in Managua, Nicaragua, hauls water back to her family's temporary shelter.

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In honor of Veteran's Day, Questa residents gathered to unveil a small replica of the Vietnam Memorial that is in Washington D.C. The Memorial in Questa has the names of the local Vietnam Veterans.
     
  
On the afternoon that the Taos Community Freebox is scheduled to be closed by town officials, freebox goers have one last look for free clothes and housewares. 

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Andrew Romero, a 46 year old homeless man,  has been living in a burned-out and dilapidated adobe structure north of Taos in El Prado.  Romero, who says he is from Santa Fe, also spends part of the year living in an abandoned Santa Fe barn.

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Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity secures a house under construction from an impending storm.
     
  
In Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Los Alamos community members and protestors face off about their opinions.
  
In Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, protesters march toward the Los Alamos National Lab.
  
Shane lives in an off-grid community on the Taos Mesa. Many of the homes are makeshift structures made out of found and recycled materials.  Winters there are challenging because many of the homes are not well-insulated and there's no running water.