Rapheal Begay is an artist based in Tségháhoodzání (Window Rock, Arizona). His work uses cultural landscape photography and creative collaboration to celebrate and preserve the Diné way of life. Visual sovereignty, Indigenous storytelling traditions, and land-based knowledge inform his research and practice. 

Recent projects include ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K’é, Iiná | Land, Home, Kinship, Life, the first traveling site-specific photography exhibition across the Navajo Nation. Begay is also co-curator, with Hadley Welch Jensen, of Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, 2023–2025). He holds a BFA in Photography with a minor in Arts Management and a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of New Mexico.

raphealb13@gmail.com

Image Credit: Evan Benally Atwood, Window Rock, AZ, 2021