Judy Stalus has been creating photographs for more than 30 years. While working at Harvard the science staff photographer loaned her a Leica and use of the department darkroom and she fell in love with the medium.

For the next 20 years she practiced law in Boston but continued to photograph constantly, setting up her own darkroom and taking classes and workshops. She printed her own work, both black and white and color, renting a professional darkroom for large color prints.

Stalus developed an interest in “toy” cameras and collected Dianas and Dories and later Holgas. She also began working with a Polaroid SX-70.

After moving to New Hampshire she decided to pursue art full time. At about the same time she began to experiment with digital work, first simply scanning her negatives and creating digital prints, then later switching to digital cameras exclusively. She loves the creative freedom of the digital darkroom.

Stalus is a founding member of the Walpole Artisans Cooperative Gallery and a member of the Vermont Center for Photography.

Her work has been shown by numerous galleries and institutions including
the Soho Gallery and Mills Pond House in New York, the Decordova Museum in Massachusetts, the Silverman Arts Center in Connecticut, and the Sharon Arts Center and Keene State College in New Hampshire.

Her work has also been published in Fine Gardening Magazine and New Hampshire Magazine.