And So We Moved to Petaca

And So We Moved to Petaca, volume 1, is a photographic chronicle documenting the intersection of counterculture families and traditional Hispano residents in Northern New Mexico. Set between 1970 and 1974, this work of photojournalism and sociology explores the efforts of urban migrants from New York and San Francisco to adopt a Nuevomexicano lifestyle. The images capture the daily realities of subsistence farming and homesteading in a remote village with minimal infrastructure.

This history of the Americas focuses on the social dynamics of a rural community where Spanish was the primary language. Lynn Adler uses her lens to examine the collision of cultures and the shared labor of raising families in a challenging environment. As a study in arts and photography, the book preserves a fleeting moment of community and conflict that defines a specific era of United States rural life.