Judy Hancock Holland

Judy Hancock Holland is an award winning Canadian photographic artist and lifelong educator. She graduated from the University of Calgary in 1976 and moved to Nanaimo after retiring from the University of Alberta in 2008.

Retirement gave Judy the opportunity to renew her interest in photography, and she has studied with Freeman Patterson, André Gallant, Sharon Milstein, Michael Wood, Julie du Bose, John Barclay, and a number of other photographers.

Judy has a passion for fine art photography and is an active member of the invitation-only Java Jivers Photographic Art group based in Huntington Beach, California, and repeat presenter to the international SheClicks group headquartered in the UK. She is a sought after speaker on photographic topics, particularly minimalist photography, and continues to enjoy teaching and mentoring via Zoom.

Judy’s work has been exhibited in Canada, the US, and Europe, and she has been interviewed as far away as India and New Zealand. Her YouTube tutorials on various aspects of photographic art have garnered over 250,000 views.

My art is inspired by the awe and gratitude I experience in witnessing the simple miracles I see around me every day. Quite simply, beauty feeds my soul, and I delight in using my camera and modern photographic technology to share that beauty in the hopes that it will move the viewer as well.

I’ve been influenced by the floral work of Georgia O’Keeffe, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Christopher Beale, as well as the work of Auguste Renoir, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Nancy Rotenberg, and Yousef Karsh. Although minimalism is the genre that most attracts me, I enjoy any genre of photographic art that brings into my sensuality and an awareness of the sacred.