“Her camera records not just faces and places, but moments, expressions, relationships, gestures, and meanings as well. The art of the photograph—an art she continues to feel so deeply—is that it can capture the emotion as well as the form. Of the millions of photographs that families take of their loved ones who face this unkind fate, how many are capable of completing the equation and transmitting their feelings of loss and fear and despair in the way that Judith’s images do, time and time again? Photographers return from battlefields and natural disasters with images of casualties and destruction often. But how many of them take us beyond and through the physical destruction and have us feel the devastation to the heart and soul as well. Such is the power of Judith’s view into Ed’s heart as well as her own.” —Roy L. Flukinger, Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas.
HER POETRY:
“Our stories ground us.
We select them, we edit them,
and we tell them to others
in order to explain ourselves.
Ed is losing his story.
We select them, we edit them,
and we tell them to others
in order to explain ourselves.
Ed is losing his story.
Once Ed and I started living with Alzheimer’s,
we began a trip down a never-ending staircase.
Here and there we’ve found a platform
and rested for a while.
Then there was another step down.
And another.
Right now Ed and I are tumbling feet-over-head.
No platforms in sight.
A nightmare.
we began a trip down a never-ending staircase.
Here and there we’ve found a platform
and rested for a while.
Then there was another step down.
And another.
Right now Ed and I are tumbling feet-over-head.
No platforms in sight.
A nightmare.
No matter where Ed lives in this world,
he will never again feel at home.
The floors have collapsed, the ceilings have opened,
the walls buckled.
Our house can no longer be counted upon
to give him stable shelter and protection.”
he will never again feel at home.
The floors have collapsed, the ceilings have opened,
the walls buckled.
Our house can no longer be counted upon
to give him stable shelter and protection.”
HER CURRENT EXHIBITION:
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