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Julia Forrest is a Brooklyn-based visual artist who works exclusively with medium format film, building portable darkrooms on-site to hand-print each photograph. Through her camera, she creates surreal, illusionary landscapes where women, often faceless, act as powerful mythological figures transforming nature with mirrors, manipulating perspective, and blending into their surroundings.

Without digital editing, Julia crafts every composition in-camera, drawing inspiration from 1890s Pictorialist photography and the fine-art tradition of linking the female form with the environment.

 Her use of infrared film adds a dreamlike, timeless quality, evoking the fragility and transformation of landscapes in the face of climate change. A recipient of grants from NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, and NEA, she has exhibited and photographed globally and teaches photography at the Brooklyn Museum and Lehman College.