Judith M. Daniels has a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz in Arts and Crafts and their History and has studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, New England School of Photography and the Boston Visual School in Viterbo, Italy. She has taught at The Boston Photo Collaborative, The Brookline Center for the Arts, The Boston Adult Center for Adult Education and The Cambridge Adult Center for Education.

For the past 12 years she has concentrated exclusively on photography. Previously she studied painting, drawing, and weaving and was an oriental rug restorer for many years. She has been exhibiting her work in the Boston area since 1982 and has been a recipient of a support grant for her photography from the Somerville Arts Council funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Recently she was awarded a grant from the Council for the Arts, MIT. Her work is in the DeCordova Museum's Corporate Lending Program as well as numerous private collections.

I have always enjoyed walking or driving in the evening and seeing the light in the windows of people's homes. The light coming from the darkness evokes in my mind perfect scenes inside where all is well; where there is the smell of delicious food cooking, the pillows are soft and comforting, children are being hugged and held by their parents, lovers are passionate yet tender with each other....

There is something about the light coming out of the darkness that is a vehicle for the imagination. The fact that the light is emanating from someone's living space guides the mind in a particular way.

There was one window up on a third floor that I used to walk by frequently, imagining all the wonderful scenes inside. It had soft flowing curtains with a little light. I had occasion to meet the person who owned the home. I went up to the room eagerly looking forward to seeing it and found that it was an empty, unfinished attic. Sometimes, it seems, the imagination is a better place to reside.