Julia Forrest
Photography
Brooklyn, NY
Julia Forrest is a Brooklyn-based artist. She works strictly in film photography and prints in a travel-size darkroom that she builds on location. Her own art has always been her top priority in life, and in this digital world, she will continue to work with old processing. Anything can simply be done in Photoshop, she prefers to take the camera, a tool traditionally used for documenting, and experiment with what she can do in front of the lens.
Julia uses mirrors, reflections, and forced perspective to create her illusory work. She references the historical fine-art connection of the femme form with the natural landscape. The women are seen as mythological spirits: building the landscape, destroying it, and transforming it with ease. Because the landscape is ever-changing due to society’s greed and global warming, Julia hopes to regain the connection to the environment that has been lost. Her work will never see completion because the landscape is in constant change. By relying on residencies to create new photographs, she is constantly seeing new environments to photograph within a creative community. She makes connections with local women and the landscapes that are personal to them.
Julia is a grant recipient of NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Arts. Her grants allow her to travel and show throughout the United States. Internationally, she has photographed Morocco, Taiwan, Spain, Norway, Cyprus, amongst others. She is currently working as a teaching artist at the Brooklyn Museum and Lehman College. As an instructor, she thinks it is important to understand that a person can constantly stretch and push the boundaries of their ideas with whatever medium of art they choose. Her goal is for her audience to not only enjoy learning about photography but to see the world in an entirely new way and continue to develop a future interest in the arts. Her work encourages people to savor what is around them and become aware that nothing will remain untouched unless hard work is put into place to keep it.
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