Photographer Lenny Foster lives in Taos, where in 2007, the Taos Fall Arts Committee recognized him as a Taos Living Master. Foster’s first book, Healing Hands (Brother Bee Books, $50), began sixteen years ago with a series of images created during a week-long healing ritual in Senegal, West Africa. More than seventy-five images followed of the hands of subjects of all ages from across the United States, the South Pacific, and the Caribbean. There are a few black-and-white photographs but most are brightly colored by exotic wear with a definite deluge of healers, shamans, ministers, and other creative and rustic types—people who use their hands. A journalistic entry written by Foster of each encounter accompanies each image. It is a quiet and honest book that prompts us to look at each pair of hands in the way we would a tree trunk’s circles—in search of wear and wisdom. Foster writes that this body of work reflects his “intent and desire…to be in constant communion with the divine.”