Photos Capture Significance of Water
Rezflections, Tonalea, AZ, Navajo Nation (WRRC 2018 Photo Contest)
Image Credit: Natalya Sherman Robbins
Photography offers a compelling way to express human connections with water and its beauty, power, and essential role in sustaining life. This theme was reflected at Planet Women’s 3rd Annual Women and Water Convening, which was held in Tuba City, Arizona, earlier this month and was attended by WRRC Director Sharon B. Megdal and WRRC Associate Director Jamie McEvoy. The event is covered in greater detail in a separate article of this issue.
Attendees of the convening each received a Dear Body of Water (DBoW) postcard in their event bag. An initiative developed through the U of A Poetry Center by Gretchen E. Henderson, the DBoW project invites participants to address bodies of water as fellow beings on the Earth through love letters, either by filling out the postcard or by submitting their contributions online. In collaboration with the project, each postcard features a photograph from the WRRC’s annual photo contest and illustrates the project’s theme of gratitude and reverence for water. One postcard image, titled “Rezflections” and captured in Tonalea, AZ, Navajo Nation, was taken by U of A alum Natalya Sherman Robbins, who also attended the convening. Her photo was selected as a winner in the WRRC 2018 Photo Contest and continues to resonate as an artistic expression of water’s cultural and emotional significance.
The WRRC invites you to share your own visual interpretations of water by entering the WRRC 2025 Photo Contest: A World of Water. The deadline to submit your photo(s) to this year’s contest is December 19, 2025. Like the Dear Body of Water project, our photo contest highlights the creativity inspired by water in all its forms.