Mark Klett: Desert Citizens

Experience the Sonoran Desert through the lens of award-winning Arizona landscape photographer Mark Klett in this photography exhibit. With a career spanning more than four decades, Klett reframes our notions of time, cultural memory, and the land around us.

“The saguaro only grows in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. They are magnificent plants, and walking among them gives a presence that is undeniably human. For centuries, people native to the region have considered saguaros to be the souls of lost ancestors.”
– Mark Klett

Mark Klett  is a photographer interested in the intersection of places, history, and time. His background includes working as a geologist before turning to photography. Klett has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission. His work has been exhibited and published in the United States and internationally, and is held in over eighty museum collections worldwide. He is the author/co-author of nineteen books, including “Seeing Time, Forty Years of Photographs” (University of Texas Press, 2020). Klett is Regents’ Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University.