"The acquisition of Helen Stummer's photographs strengthens the Library's outstanding collections of documentary photography..."

    Caroline Johnson, Curator of Photographs
    Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
 

 
"Helen Stummer is the Dorothea Lange of our time."

    A. Burns, Photography Researcher
    New York City
 

 
"O.K. Harris has shown fine photography for thirty years. Helen Stummer is one of the few exhibitors whose work has universal response. Her work is mature, complex, provacative, and illuminating. Her dedication to her human subjects is unique in its powerful focus. We revere her lofty idealism."

    Ivan Karp, Director
    O.K. Harris Gallery of Art, New York City
 

 
"Because of the decades of being involved with urban families, Stummer is unique among American photographers."

    Professor D. Goode, Sociologist
    Staten Island University
 

 
"Taken as a whole, her East 6th Street project is a profoundly moving and rich document of what it meant to be poor and struggling in New York's 'Alphabet City' in the years just before crack cocaine, AIDS, the homelessness crisis, and gentrification transformed what had been an embattled but stable community of impoverished people and pushed them out of the neighborhood."

    Steven H. Jaffe, Ph.D.
    Senior Projects Historian
    The New York Historical Society
 

 
"Helen Stummer's quest to answer the problem of inhumanity has brought her photographic genius head-to-head with the imponderable force of American racism. This collection of some of the most penetrating photographs of urban America in the 21st century represents only a fraction of what the keen eyes of Helen Stummer have been able to see from her vantage point of examining the interstices of social justice and social reality."

    Molefi Kete Asante, Ph.D.
    African American Studies
    Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
 

 
"Helen Stummer...perhaps the most eloquent photographer of Newark around today."

    Dan Bischoff, Art Critic
    The Star Ledger
 

 
"There is so much depth and interpretation in [Stummer's] photos. They are complex images with competing themes in each. Small elements ofen play off each other. They are formally beautiful yet they do not glorify the social themes they illustrate. "

    Prof. Douglas Harper
    Chair, Department of Sociology
    Duquesne University