About The Artist

Judith TateFor about 20 years I worked in the commercial fishing industry -- seafood processor, deck hand, vessel owner/operator, and favorite, net-builder. I am the first woman to graduate from URI's Commercial Fisheries and Marine Technology program and recently earned a U.S. Coast Guard Master's License.

In the mid-1990s, I changed careers to graphic design and publishing, received a certificate in Computer Graphics Production from RISD Continuing Education, and "abandoned" motor vessels for sail. (Not for long, though, as I have just added an 18 ft lobster boat to my fleet!)

Then, in 2001, while learning to design websites, I purchased a digital camera (websites have to have photos!). As my interest in photography grew, I upgraded to a Canon Digital SLR with an assortment of Canon and Sigma lenses and began taking classes in photography at RISD CE.

My main photographic subjects are the things I love: the ocean, boats and sailing, kite flying, travel and nature. A series of my photos are part of the Rhode Island African American Music Heritage Oral History Project: The Rhythm and Blues Era, in the Rhode Island Historical Society Graphics Collection. One of my recent projects is photographing the construction of the wind turbine generator here in Portsmouth.

I have traveled to Nova Scotia, Bermuda, Iceland, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. I have been to the Arctic Circle and the Equator and am looking forward to the Antarctic Circle one of these days.

Oh -- the lobster boat I mentioned above... In addition to using it to haul lobster pots (I have my recreational license), it is my photo chase boat!

Member Organizations:
Photographers’ Guild of the Newport Art Museum
Portsmouth Arts Guild
South County Art Association
Save the Bay
Mystic Seaport

 

Langjokull Glacier, IcelandLangjokull Glacier, Iceland

 

GalapagosGalapagos Islands

 

lobstering

  Lobstering with my crew, David



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