Using a medium format film camera and no digital manipulation, Julia creates an illusion within the lens. 

Julia Forrest is a Brooklyn based artist. She works strictly in film and prints in a darkroom she built within her apartment. 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 of showing reality, and experiment with what she can do in front of the lens.

 Julia is currently working as a teaching artist at the Brooklyn Museum, USDAN Art Center, and Abrons Art Center. 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.

Julia will be working on continuing her photography series "Illusion”. She poses nymph-like women in the landscape. By using mirrors, reflections, and forced perspective, Julia creates an illusion in front of the lens. Although they misleadingly appear docile, it is obvious they possess a mysterious power to move the landscape at will. They change shape and scale, picking up parts of the landscape or completely transforming it.

Julia will be showing her art in the fall of 2021 at the Newhouse Gallery at the Snug Harbor Botanical Gardens in Staten Island, New York. 

Please visit Julia’s Instagram, Facebook and her website for more information.