Historic Santa Fe Foundation (HSFF) is pleased to present an exhibition of Simone Frances’ photographs from Old Santa Fe Today: A History & Tour of Historic Properties (5th Edition).

The exhibition will open at El Zaguán, 545 Canyon Road, Suite 2, Santa Fe, NM on Friday, November 4, 2022 from 5-7pm.

ABOUT THE SHOW:
Photographs from Old Santa Fe Today (5th Edition) features Simone Frances’ photographs of the most renowned properties on HSFF’s Register of Properties Worthy of Preservation.

Frances’ photographs visually explore the use, history, and narrative of structures in Old Santa Fe Today: A History & Tour of Historic Properties (5th Edition). 100% of all sales benefit Historic Santa Fe Foundation.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Simone Frances is a writer and architectural photographer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and in coastal Maine. Frances received her BFA in photography in 2004 from the College of Santa Fe. After a long career as an antique photographic printer, Frances took her master’s in photography from the University of New Mexico in 2019, where she was a teacher of photography. Exhibiting locally and nationally, she has received awards and honors, such as the SITE Santa Fe Site Scholar, SOMA Mexico City Fellowship, the Fred M. Calkins Award, the Phyllis Muth Scholarship for Fine Arts, and the John L. Knight Award. Frances served as the Pictorial Fellow at the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections from 2017 to 2019. Frances’ research led her to the fields of visual culture and public environment. Her conceptual work is centered around the public arena of institutional architecture, physical and conceptual structures of whiteness, and the participatory and performative relationships of public space. She is the photographer for the new and fifth edition of Historic Santa Fe Foundation’s Old Santa Fe Today.