Judith Fletcher

Ann Judith Fletcher (30 June 1886 – 30 July 1970), known in later life as Judith Paszek, was a portrait and fashion photographer from Sydney.

Early life Fletcher was born on 30 June 1886 in Katoomba, New South Wales. Her parents were Ann Marian Fletcher nee Clarke, an embroiderer who made the velvet bag to hold The Ashes urn, and John Walter Fletcher, a teacher, cricketer, and police magistrate, who is known as the 'father of Australian football' for his role in introducing soccer to Australia. She had five siblings including Nora Kathleen Fletcher, a nurse who led the British Red Cross in France and Belgium as principal matron in World War I, and John Fletcher a cricketer and Queensland politician. Fletcher grew up in Katoomba until the family moved to Greenwich in Sydney, where she stayed until she was married in 1934.

Career She had a photography studio in Sydney's North Shore, where she worked from 1905 until 1930.

Fletcher advertised her art photography using full page portraits of celebrities and socialites in Sydney Ure Smith's Art in Australia publication. and Winifred Betts. as well as prominent women in the philanthropy fields, such as Olive Kelso King, Mary Hughes, and Thea Stanley Hughes.

Fletcher continued to work and exhibit until the early 1930s. Fletcher took a portrait of fellow theosophist, the social activist Annie Besant.

On 28 August 1934 Fletcher married Gerard Paszek, a Polish violin maker. After she married she relocated first to Mount Kuringai, and then to Glenorie where she lived for the rest of her life.