"A good story in a picture is much better than being alive. Being alive is complicated and hard, but a good picture — I can get lost in it." -Judith Joy Ross
Judith Joy Ross is a Pennsylvania native who "sensitive and penetrating portraits of school children, teenagers, visitors to Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., members of the United States Congress, and most recently, of Americans protesting the U.S. war in Iraq." (http://www.pacemacgill.com/judithjoyrossbio.html)
Ross tends to make photographs in series. Between 1992 and 1994 she took a series of pictures in her hometown of Hazleton, Pa. of school age children in the public schools there. Hazleton is a small town in a former coal-mining region. "The Hazleton school series arose out of her concerns about children's welfare, and by extension, the welfare of the adults they become. "It's so silly, but I basically thought people would be willing to pay more taxes if they could just remember what it was like to be a kid," she said. "And I thought if they could remember that, they'd also treat each other better."" (www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/arts/design/02fine.html)
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