Artist Statement
Arizona Fall
For nearly four decades, Reed Stuart Rahn has lived behind the lens bearing witness to history, beauty, and humanity across continents. From the cover of Time Magazine to the pages of National Geographic, his camera has served as a bridge between moment and meaning, people and place. Now, at 66, he enters a new chapter: sharing his personal vision through fine art photography.
Arizona Fall is a celebration of quiet transformation. After 49 years of hiking and photographing this rugged and radiant state, he has come to cherish its most understated season autumn. While Arizona is best known for desert heat and red rock, its hidden groves and highland forests and canyons tell a different story with multi colors, exhibited for a short period of time.
This series is still a work in progress, but from the hundreds of fall images he’s taken, only twelve have made the cut. For him, anything less than timeless is unacceptable. Each image you see here represents the pinnacle of patience, light, and reverence for nature’s seasonal poetry.
These photographs are not just scenes, they are moments of stillness, crafted with the same discipline he brought to his world class editorial work. The images are about seeing color where others don’t look, feeling movement in quiet leaves, and honoring the short lived brilliance of change.
Each image is offered as a limited edition fine art print, an invitation to collectors who value not just beauty, but authenticity, rarity, and legacy.
To those who bring this work into their homes thank you for honoring Arizona's quiet autumn, and for supporting a vision nearly five decades in the making. Reed looks forward to signing your personal limited edition print, Thank You.