The first time I picked up a camera was 30 years ago in Hawaii, and I was immediately hooked. I was fortunate to have taken workshops with Ansel Adams and Yousuf Karsh, who helped transform my vision.

I have worked for newpapers, Riverdale Press and the Photo District News (PDN) in NYC. My images have appeared in various magazines and books, including the reportage photographs in The Fashion Photographer by well-known photographer, author and husband, Robert Farber.

With a passion for travel, I embarked on a photographic journey, which took me around the world working for clients such as the Spanish Tourist Board, Royal Air Moroc, Pan American, Air France and TWA. With this extensive traveling, I was exposed to the innocence and sensitivity captured in the remarkable faces of the people I encountered. Here my style was born. I was drawn in on those extraordinary eyes, which characterized a homeland.

My passion is capturing life during the act of living.....to take photojournalistic snap shots using available light. My travels, for work and pleasure, have taken me to India (worked with Tibetan children in Dharamsala), China (lived with a family on Hainan Island), Thailand, Mexico, Morocco, Canary Islands, Europe, Singapore, Philippines, Scandinavia, Caribbean.

For me, a good image embraces an emotion. Recording the human soul through compassion, isolation, sadness and despair have been my focus. Stopping time...revealing a secret through the eyes, portrays a story untold. The subject naturally presents themselves, if you can slow yourself down, and capture that split second moment which tells a story. My images are rarely planned, but taken in that moment of time's flow, bridging the gap between fine art and documentary photography. I live for that inner emotional spark of creativity, be it photographing, traveling or exploring.

I am also co-founder of the largest educational photographic website, photoworkshop.com, the destination site to the Canon Digital Learning Center and sponsored by prestigious names in photography and digital imaging (Adobe, SanDisk, Hasselblad, Canon, etc). Photoworkshop.com has vast resources of interactive educational tutorials, member galleries, 3-D studios, video libraries of well-known photographers, Double Exposure newsletter, and the only location online where PPA members (Professional Photographers of America) can receive their educational merits. PWS is a site for photographic inspiration, growth and recognition.

photoworkshop.com bio page

photos of me with "friends"

judith@farber.com

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