In the 1950s, photographer Tad Nichols shot iconic images of Glen Canyon before the damming of the Colorado River. He died in 2000 but his photos remain the definitive account of the landscape now submerged by Lake Powell.

Recently though as the lake's levels have dropped Flagstaff photographer Dawn Kish ventured into the reemerging canyon to shoot it again with Nichols’ own camera. A new exhibit features her images of Glen Canyon alongside his original work.

“Glen Canyon Exposed: Now and Then” on display through April at the John Wesley Powell River History Museum in Green River, Utah.

Ryan Heinsius: Why was it important to document Glen Canyon now in this sort of comparative style?

Dawn Kish: Yeah. Curiosity: like, what is Glen Canyon? We don’t know. It was covered up. It was b

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