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Hand Prints, the symbol for all Humanity

  • June 6, 2017
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  • by Stephen Alvarez

If there is a single image that could stand for all of humanity it is the negative handprint. I’ve seen the negative handprint reproduced on 6 continents and across all

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Procession Panel, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah

  • April 24, 2017
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  • by Stephen Alvarez

Recorded March 2017 The Procession Panel, San Juan County, Utah The 15-foot long panel depicts 179 human-like forms coming from three different directions and converging on a central circle. Other

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“In 15,000 years we have invented nothing!”

  • April 14, 2017
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  • by Stephen Alvarez
Dating cave paintings in Altamira Cave, Spain

There is a story about Ancient Art and Pablo Picasso. The story is that he once visited Altamira, the famous Paleolithic cave in Northern Spain. Picasso was said to have

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Ancient Art Archive launches the Unnamed Caves Initiative

  • April 14, 2017
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  • by Stephen Alvarez

The Unnamed Caves are one of the initiatives that the Ancient Art Archive is working on this year. Across the Southeast, there are prehistoric art caves. The locations are closely

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New 3D model of Horseshoe Canyon, Utah

  • March 28, 2017
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  • by Stephen Alvarez

On the way back from a spring scouting trip to the Comb Wash / Bears Ears area of Utah I stopped to shoot a new model of the Great Gallery

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Travel Photography with Smartphones

  • February 14, 2017
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  • by Stephen Alvarez

Join Stephen Alvarez in Santa Fe March 26-31 to explore what your smartphone can do. More information here. “You took that picture with a smartphone?” National Geographic photographer Stephen Alvarez

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Why we need to record ancient art right now by Stephen Alvarez

  • February 13, 2017
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  • by Stephen Alvarez

Last year I started a project called the Ancient Art Archive to use photography and 3D modeling to preserve the world’s oldest art. One of the first questions that I

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Stephen Alvarez on Shooting Chauvet and his new project The Ancient Art Archive

  • February 10, 2017
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  • by Stephen Alvarez

The Lion Panel of Chauvet, France by Ancient Art Archive on Sketchfab My newest project,  Ancient Art Archive all grows out of a National Geographic Magazine story. I wrote about the experience

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Lumia Smartphone shoots the Northern Lights!

  • March 3, 2016
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  • by Stephen Alvarez

Shooting the Northern Lights with a Lumia Smartphone by Stephen Alvarez It stuns me how fast imaging technology is changing. Not in DSLRs. They are fantastic but have not advanced

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Shooting Chauvet: Photographing the World’s Oldest Cave Art on Proof

  • January 5, 2015
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  • by Stephen Alvarez
Screen Shot 2015-01-05 at 3.38.22 PM

Read about how I photographed the world’s oldest cave art on NGM’s Proof Blog (here).

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