Art and culture across eastern Nevada
National Geographic photographer Joshua Cogan returns to eastern Nevada to document the art, culture, and creative traditions shaped by the region’s high-desert landscape.
Nevada is a state defined by space—by long distances, dramatic shifts in landscape, and a sense of possibility that has shaped how people live, work, and travel across it. In the eastern part of the state, that scale slows everything down, giving rise to a cultural life rooted in continuity, craft, and close attention to place.
On his third assignment in the Silver State, National Geographic photographer Joshua Cogan returns to eastern Nevada to document how art and culture emerge from daily relationships between people and the land. Traveling through remote towns, working ranches, and Indigenous communities, Cogan captures artists and makers whose work is shaped by the materials, histories, and landscapes around them. Together, the images reveal a region where creativity is not separate from the environment, but a direct response to it.
