Born: 1936, United States
Died: Unknown
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
The following is republished from New Jersey Women’s History, in line with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Helen M. Stummer (1936- ) is a photographer who has been documenting Newark’s Central Ward for many years.
She gives her photographs to her subjects, many of whom became her friends. Stummer raised her family then completed her education by earning a GED, a Bachelor’s degree from Kean University, and finally a Master’s degree at age 50. The first solo exhibitions of her work in New Jersey was held at Kean University, the Newark Public Library, and the Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1986. Her book No Easy Walk (1994) contains her images and includes excerpts from her interviews with the people she photographed in Newark.