Judy Brown, Photographer
Photographer Judy Brown talks about her experience working in fine art photography, detailing her creative process and artistic inspirations.
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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
“I'm Judy and I'm a photographer, though, every time I say I'm a photographer I think I'm really a physicist because I was a physicist for many decades before I became a photographer. I started photography, somewhat seriously, many decades ago when I went to Wellesley College where I was a physics professor, as I said.
I arrived in the physics department and found this wonderful darkroom that was not used by anyone down in the basement, and I had always wanted to develop my own pictures because my cousin, my little cousin seven years younger than me, had done his when I was growing up.
I bought a little booklet by Ansel Adams, a little green booklet, and learned how to develop pictures and so, for some three years I developed and printed black-and-white photographs. We started doing holography in my optics lab. Spending time in the darkroom seemed a lot like my work spending time in the darkroom with holography. I felt a little trapped, and in a darkroom.
One fall day, it was absolutely spectacular weather outside, absolutely beautiful, and I spent the afternoon in the darkroom and when I came out I said, ‘Why am I doing this?’
As I neared retirement, not sure whether it was nearing retirement or desired to do something new, I took a Photoshop class. I absolutely loved it, which I knew I would because I had dabbled in Photoshop for a few things and I always forgot what I had painstakingly learned by the time I got back to it. This time, I spent all of my time for a semester on Photoshop and it was great. I really, I really learned a lot so I was hooked at that point.
I had a really great teacher, he was extremely critical, which few people are. You take these classes and they don't really give you good feedback. This guy really told it like it was and I learned a lot from him. I relied heavily on a friend I made in the class who gave me some excellent advice. We had a landscape assignment and she said, ‘You should always take pictures of what you love.”
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