image by
Judith Joy Ross
Robert S.Walker, Republican,
Pennsylvania 1987

Judith Joy Ross manages something
many of us portrait-photographers don´t achieve:
she isn´t specialized on the lower class,
she is not specialized on the especially marked.

Her protagonists are as everyday and as special as we all are.
They seem to open themselves for her and her camera,
showing us something we hardly ever see: vulnerability.

No moment is more intimate than this point of softness,
hardly ever to be experienced in everyday life.

Thus, as Judith Joy Ross photographs the hardly ever seen,
she creates fiction that gives nourishment for our need for intimacy and empathy.