Judy Lee is a Narrative Artist working in digital photography to explore the experience of being in female and BIPOC bodies. Through photography, video interviews and writing, her projects aim to give voice and visibility to those who experience marginalization or displacement from themselves and society.

Originally from NYC, Judy comes from an academic background with an M.A. in Sociology specializing in race, class, and gender inequality and research methods. She worked as Director of Research and Program Evaluation in K-12 to University partnerships in the University of California system until she moved to Seattle where she worked as a consultant. Soon after, she took time off to raise children when she discovered photography after purchasing her first DSLR. This eventually led to her starting a family photography business when friends started asking for pictures.

After a lifetime of struggling with an intense fear of being seen stemming from a deep detachment from feeling belonging both at home and in the greater world, Judy could not get her photography business off the ground. Everything changed when she discovered women's portrait photography in 2016. Judy Lee Photography was born out of that journey and as she became more attuned to her inner self and voice, her work evolved from simply taking "beautiful" pictures of women to developing the Transformative Portrait Photography process which uses portraits as powerful tools for self-reflection, growth and healing. This business mirrored Judy's own self-discovery journey when she opened her studio in 2018. She also began offering workshops, community events and taught WomanSpeak, a speaking program she herself took to connect to her true voice. She became a practitioner of "difficult beauty," inviting women to redefine beauty outside of the male gaze not only with her clients but also as part of her art project RAW.