About Myself

Martin Jukovsky with camera I grew up in Brooklyn (Brownsville) and Queens (Woodside and Flushing), New York. Each summer I went to the Catskills with my parents. Eventually, I moved to Manhattan. I graduated from City University of New York in 1968 with a B.A. in Film Technique. I was a film editor at WNYC-TV (channel 31), the city-owned station, where I put together newsfilm for the 6 pm and 11 pm news. For a year, I taught film editing at HARYOU-ACT, an arts center that was part of the antipoverty program at the time. I next worked as a caseworker for the New York City Department of Social Services, staying three years.

In 1971, my wife and I moved to the Boston area. At first, I worked at layout and pasteup at a publishing firm -- Benwill Publishing, now long gone -- that put out three computer magazines (this was the Jurassic era of computing). I then worked for the next 14 years as a proofreader, primarily at a now-defunct typehouse, Graphics Etcetera. From 1982 to 1984, I edited Views, a journal of photographic history and criticism, published by the Photographic Resource Center. I bought a Commodore 64 in 1983, and founded and edited Sprite, the Commodore user group magazine, for the Boston Computer Society from 1984 to 1986. portrait of Martin Jukovsky In 1986, I became a technical editor at Honeywell Information Systems (now known as Bull HN). I was laid off in 1990. I then became the Buyers Guide Editor at Digital News, an IDG publication. I was laid off in 1992 when the publication was sold to Cahners Publishing. In 1993, I was hired as the editor at a Boston-area high-tech research and consulting firm. At the end of 2002, I was laid off, but I am now back at work as an editor at an non-profit medical publisher.

I have exhibited my photography in the Boston area; my articles on film, photography, comic book art, and software, as well as my poetry, have been published in books and magazines. I have also written program notes each month for concerts given by the Art of Music Chamber Group and have reviewed film and the arts for a socialist Web site.

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