About us

Meghan Dhaliwal and Dominic Bracco II are husband and wife documentary photographers in Baja California Sur, Mexico. We’re both National Geographic Explorers, and lead workshops for National Geographic Photo Camp. Our work is in museum and private collections, and we’ve done work for magazines and newspapers like Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Times, National Geographic, Harper’s Magazine, Gato Pardo, Biographic, Der Spiegel, Mongabay, NZZ and others. We focus on our human impact on the natural world and our place in it. This newsletter is a series of field notes, and behind the scenes, from projects that we are currently working on.

What is a Wide Edit

A “wide edit” is editorial jargon for a bunch of select images from a project shot by a photojournalist. It is what you send your editor at the end of a long day of shooting. Not every photograph, but every good frame. From these selects you start to narrow down your work into something more concise. You ask questions like “What does this photograph say to the viewer? What fits the story, book, article, journal the best. Which color scheme fits?…” You get the idea. The process of looking over work, and sharing the back story of your images often we only shared with an editor, curator - or more often than not - a group of other photographers. This newsletter is basically just that - a conversation about the work we are making, the issues that gnaw at the corners of our subconscious, and the images we make that hopefully say something.