One of my favorite photographers is Judith Joy Ross. She is an amazing photographer. Her photos above are in her book Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools. I grew up in Hazleton, Pa, and to see her amazing shots of Hazleton people made me feel a connection to her. Her work is represented in the MOMA, SFMOMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Yale where she began her career. In the early 1990s Ross returned to Hazleton to revisit her experiences of growing up there. She shot these with a 8 x 10 inch view camera. To see two of my former high school teachers in her book after so many years was unreal. Her work is unforgettable and profound.
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