“I try to capture images that do justice to our culture and traditions,” says New Mexico photographer putting Native American heritage in the limelight

With Native American Heritage Month underway, what better time to celebrate the recent accomplishment of photographer Curtis Ray Benally, an enrolled member of the Diné (Navajo) Nation in New Mexico.

Benally, who goes by the nickname Turkeyboy, was recently selected as one of the photographers to feature in The Fifty – an ongoing project by photography platform VSCO, celebrating photographers across the US…