Judy
Blankenship, an award-winning photographer, writer, editor
and researcher, grew up in the United States but lived many
years in Canada and Central and South America before
settling in Portland, Oregon.
Her documentary collections are in the national museums of
Costa Rica and Ecuador. A traveling exhibit,
The
Cañari of Southern Ecuador, has
shown in museums, universities and cultural venues across
the U.S., Canada and in Ecuador. Her archive of
photographs, videos and sound recordings of the Cañari
culture will eventually be housed at Smithsonian’s
National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C.
Cañar:
A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador,
published by University of Texas Press in 2005, describes
in narratives and photographs the year she and her husband
Michael spent living and working among the people of Canar.
(see link to Amazon, Powell’s & or U of T)
Other
books include Scenes
from Life: Views of Marriage, Family and
Intimacy,
(sociology text published by Little Brown & Co.,
Boston);
Come With Us: Children Speak for Themselves
(refugee
children’s art and writings published by
Women’s Press, Toronto;)
and Intersections: Stories from Interstate
Avenue,
commissioned by TriMet, Transportation District of Oregon.
National magazine publications include DoubleTake
Magazine, Ceramics Monthly, Home Magazine, Hospice
Magazine, Midwifery Today, Report on the
Americas,
and New
Internationalist. Her
newspaper articles have appeared in the Oregonian,
Denver Post,
and
New
Mexican.
Judy has received awards in photography from the Oregon
Arts Council, Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and
Thanks Be to Grandmother Winifred Foundation. Research and
teaching grants for her documentary work in Ecuador include
two Fulbrights (2000; 2005) and an Organization of American
States fellowship (2001).
She is a member of Blue Earth Alliance, a
photography foundation based in Seattle dedicated to
supporting
photographic projects that educate the public about
threatened cultures and endangered
environments.
From her base in Portland Judy works as a freelance editor,
writer and photographer. For more information see
her resume.
Judy
