Artists: A - G: Judy Gelles

Trailer Park : Melbourne, Florida

In 1982, on a friend's recommendation, my father bought a mobile home overlooking a golf course in Melbourne Beach, Florida. My family and I have visited every January since then. I photograph at night, after 8:00pm. The streets are desolate. The mobile home park is transformed; lit by moonlight, all is quiet and still.

Beach Boxes: Melbourne, Australia

Each family uses original color combinations to make their beach box unique and personal. For $185,000.00 the purchaser buys the rights to pay the council several hundred dollars in annual rent. This is for a simple shed with no electricity, water, or any features at all other than proximity to sand and water. Only locals are allowed to acquire them and they stay in families for generations.

Judy Gelles received a MFA in Photography at Rhode Island School of Design. Her photographs are in permanent collections at: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Dayton Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Harvard University Fine Arts Library; Brooklyn Museum of Art and in private collections.