About Me

 

Photography – from the Greek words “photo” meaning “light” and “graphia” meaning “writing or drawing”

 

Judy Unger-Clark has been a “light writer” for over 50 years.  She built her first pinhole camera inspired by Eric Renner and John Wood at Alfred University. Judy’s work has evolved from darkroom to digital, but her strong ties to artistic and alternative film based methods are evident. Her computer is treated as her darkroom. Her analog film of choice was infrared which records light beyond the visible spectrum.  Judy now works with a digital infrared camera, pinhole camera and the iPhone and alternative photographic methods.

 

Judy received a BFA  from Alfred University in 1974. For 20 years, she taught high school photography in New Hampshire and Vermont. In addition to her photography she is an active gardener.

 

“Unger-Clark offers up some startling photographs – images layered on images,   the world as seen through the artist’s lens.  – It’s a kind of scrapbook of something that’s not quite real; its memory and nostalgia, but there’s something disturbing there as well, a certain slideshow quality.”        Text by Jane Eklund