Kevin Bubriski was 26 years old when he arrived in New Mexico in 1981. The Massachusetts native had spent three years in Nepal with the Peace Corps and another year working in a mountain village before moving to Santa Fe to study film. But once in the American southwest, he found a burgeoning and vivacious culture and people so far from anything he’d ever known, and he spent the next two and a half years of his life documenting their daily lives through his photography. “The photographs allow the viewer to encounter this community of three decades ago, quietly ‘look into their eyes,’ and ideally find a sense of our shared humanity,” Bubriski told HuffPost. “The specific take away for me from the experience was a deep appreciation for the Hispanic culture and history of New Mexico.” Bubriski’s subjects often gaze intently into his camera lens, indeed offering a look into their eyes and a brief glimpse into their world, which is accentuated by big hair, bold make-up and all the glamour of the early ‘80s. He says his photographs are a result of the “mutual respect” between the person behind the camera and those in front of it.” - Carolina Moreno Editor, The Huffington Post