early photoshoot with her sister anna

at an early age, julia loved the world of studio photography and portraiture. From photoshoots with her younger sister in the heart of tribeca, or as a model stand-in for Macy’s catalogue shoots with Patricia BlacK pronouncing “you’re a beautiful girl Julery Pearl!” She was hooked.

At 15, she started a summer internship with Albert Watson, and when he offered her a full-time position during her enrollment at Barnard College, she ran at the opportunity. She continued assisting on-set, featured as a digital technician on-location for his BBC doc on the isle of Skye, and later at Danny Clinch’s and Mark Seliger’s studios working part-time as she STARTED booking shoots herself. Throughout these years, she studied and Teacher-assisted at ICP International Center of Photography. WITH DEDICATED MONTHS AND YEARS IN THE DARKROOM, She also developed ORIGINAL print-making techniques which were featured for museum and gallery shows internationally.

In her twenties, after her on-set diary work in West Africa for Watson’s studio, Peter beard commissioned Julia to shoot alongside himself and sante d’orazio for beard’s project “living Sculpture,” which was directly antithetical to her studies at Barnard College and the personal work she was developing.

Her still portraits gained more traction in fine art venues, with commissioned projects like the “Femminielli Series,” nude containers exploring gendered embodiment and the actualization of expression, shared at mykonos bieNnalE and Miami Basel’s SateLlites, and her Moving-image portraits screened at Bam BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC and TWO INSTALLMENTS AT the Brooklyn Museum.

In 2022 After the lockdown, following a niche video commercial featuring hamilton morris, she begain working through IONOSCOPE, whose first project was presented at Tribeca Film Festival and HBO. Shortly after, ionoscope’s primary infiniti-room studio was opened in Bushwick Brooklyn and shared with House of Yes.

In more recent years, Julia spends most of her attention on multi-disciplinary works as an artist, with a commission installation along the east coast 2023 and a relating ‘artist talk’ at Columbia University in 2024. Recent Portrait work was shared at THE United Nations Climate Change Conference, Cop 27 satellite Sharm El Sheikh Egypt, through Studio J/P Robbins: Projects, and A video portrait screened at the Responsive Conference at the Museum of the moving image.

Julia is based in New York, loving the collaborative container of commercial shoots as much as ever: book now.