Walker Aviation Museum
A little books about a giant place
Some places have a way of making history feel very far away. Others make it feel uncomfortably close.
The Walker Aviation Museum in Roswell, New Mexico, is one of the latter.
Having visited Hiroshima, Japan, and seen the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian, I found this little museum unexpectedly personal. There is something extraordinary about encountering different pieces of the same history in places separated by thousands of miles—and discovering how closely connected they really are.
What began as a photographic exploration of a small aviation museum became something else: a study of objects, absence, and the extraordinary histories that survive in ordinary places.
Walker Aviation Museum is a tiny, spiral-bound photographic book documenting instruments, equipment, artifacts, and fragments of a much larger story.
The book is small. The history isn't.
Photographs and text by C. Collins. Roswell, New Mexico, 2026.
