ABOUT JULIA

Nine years ago, my grandpa gave me his old film camera, and I could not put it down. I loved the way my vision through a little hole in the camera could be projected onto something tangible and then printed, through a process of meticulous work, in the darkroom. When I was in the process of capturing an image, I was alone with my camera in the moment, getting to better know myself and how I express my thoughts through my art. When I first started taking photographs, I pointed my camera at my subject and shot. However, I found that, as I continued taking photographs, the image began to choose me. I saw the world through a new lens, and photographic beauty became apparent to me in everyday life. I found a means of self-expression in photography that I had never found before. My grandpa’s well-loved camera was now loved by me, too, and when I enrolled in digital photography at school, my grandpa got me a digital camera of my own. My camera comes everywhere with me, and photography has become a part of my identity. Even my diary is a photographic one, in which I record a “Photo of the Day” in order to document my life. Photographs tell a story of who we are and where we are going, and I look forward to documenting my journey.