Rick Granados is a photographer and multidisciplinary designer based in the high desert of California. His work explores the tension between human presence and the vast, indifferent landscape. Objects, structures, and traces of habitation become artifacts once surrendered to light, weather, and time. Moving between documentation and abstraction, Granados studies the desert as both a physical environment and a psychological space, where ruin, stillness, and the uncanny coexist.

His photographs often center on what is left behind: the remnants, improvisations, and accidental monuments that reveal a place stripped to its essentials. Through a restrained visual language grounded in form, color, and atmosphere, Granados creates images that are both observational and mythic, records of the desert’s quiet transformation of the things we make.

He works across photography, printmaking, design, and sound. Granados lives and works in Twentynine Palms, California.