JUDITH HIDDEN LANIUS IS AN ARTIST AND WRITER living in New Mexico, with an abiding interest in the Hispanic villages and communities in the cultural landscape of Northern New Mexico. For many years, she has traveled the roads between the rural villages and towns north of Santa Fe. Lanius’s interest arose from being born into an old Western family in Colorado, while her photographic involvement with the less-visited areas of the world, such as the traditional desert communities of southeastern Morocco and the tribal villages of Northeast India, stems from living and traveling around the world since childhood. Her photographic vision has been captured in numerous self-published books: Rissani Gateway to the Sahara (2010) focuses on a small town adjacent to the Sahara and the quotidian life of the people, the surrounding dwellings, and the haunting beauty of the desert. Encountering the Journey (2013) is a set of highly personal portraits captured in moments of connection with the people of Northeast India, particularly in the state of Nagaland. Lanius, largely self-taught, has benefited from working with the noted landscape photographer and educator Eliot Cohen. Before her current work, she designed jewelry at HIDDEN DESIGNS JEWELRY, her Washington DC company, a city in which she also spent many years as an art historian and historic preservationist working in museums and cultural organizations.