Conceptual nominee

Photographic art for me is a creative self-expression, a way of making sense of reality and a consequent therapy to accept the results of this realization. My series “Art therapy” is an homage to some of the most inspiring modernist artists, attempting to help me align with the new reality of my home country Ukraine and the state of world in general. I chose modernism as an inspiration since this was a game-changing art movement embracing a new industrial world. I used mixed media to create each work as a contemporary photo installation. As part of a therapeutic process, I only worked with self-portraits.

Julia is a Ukrainian-born Swiss-based freelance fine art photographer. After 15 years in international marketing, she changed her career for photography in 2014 becoming a travel and portrait photographer.

Julia’s photographic core started to shake in 2021 with the travel ban during the COVID-19. It got nearly crushed in 2022 with the beginning of war in Ukraine. Collapse of her previous world and life brought her to contemporary art photography that she only starts to explore. In search of ways to understand the events around her and her own place in them, Julia started working with longer-term research projects.

LATEST EXHIBITIONS

2024
• Solo exhibition of "UNCORNERED" series, Stadtbibliotek city library, Luzern, Switzerland

2023
• Solo exhibition during the "We love Ukraine" festival, series "UNCORNERED", Nidau, Switzerland
• Helsinki Photo Festival 2023 - Courage, series "UNCORNERED"
• Solo exhibition of "UNCORNERED" series, Kornhaus city library and Folks Hoch Schule, Bern, Switzerland
• Rotterdam Photo - Exhibition 2023 - Freedom Redefined, series "UNCORNERED"
• ImageNation Paris Exhibition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York

2022
• Tokyo International Foto Awards Winners' Exhibition, Shibuya Center, Tokyo and House of Lucie, Budapest
• ImageNation Paris Exhibition, Galerie Joseph Le Palais, Paris