Mortal Highway Featured in Pasatiempo
“On the side of the highway, somewhere in Northern New Mexico, a simple white cross, affixed to a weathered wood post, marks the site of the crash where someone lost his life. The commemorative descanso, (a memorial erected at a crash site in honor of the person who died there) is for a young man who, after heading out one day to cut firewood in the mountains, never got home again.”
Mortal Highway featured in Blind Magazine
“Unlike me, artist and photographer Judith Hidden Lanius would have stopped and made the photo. In fact, over the course of a decade, she traced thousands of miles of New Mexico’s roads and took pictures of these handmade memorials as she came upon them. She’s collected 50 of her images in a tightly focused, quietly stirring new book, Mortal Highway (Daylight Books).”
Mortal Highway featured in ‘The Eye of Photography’ Magazine
“The photographs show how descansos incorporate objects of religious significance and personal mementos from the life of the deceased. This public mourning ritual turns highway shoulders into sacred spaces holding memories and cautionary tales for those driving by.”