Antelope Canyon, Navajo Nation - 2021

This magical place is a slot canyon in northern Arizona’s Lake Powell Navajo Tribal Park. The Navajo consider it a spiritual place, believed to be home to the wildlife spirits of their ancestors, and call it Hazdistazí, the Navajo name for the Lower section, which means “spiral rock arches.” In their tradition, it is believed the canyon was created as a way of connecting with nature and the spirit world, being the intersection with the physical world. It was a privilege to walk through such a special place, photographing the textures of the water-sculpted walls through millions of years of flash-floods and erosion.