Julie Williams-Krishnan is a photographic artist, freelance photographer, and university lecturer on photography. She completed her MA in Photographic Studies from University of Westminster, a leading photography program in London, in 2006. Julie also serves on the committee for the Renaissance Photography Prize.
Julie’s photographic practice, which she defines as “auto-morphography,” investigates identity and narrative through performance, constructed and candid imagery. It is a re-telling of autobiography, myths, body, memory, dreams, intentions. Referencing the surrealist practice of letting the subconscious flow through automatic drawing or writing, this photographic experiment flows through her. Morphology focuses on patterns and meanings in the letter clusters in word formation. The work translates this concept of consequence into imagery and uses building blocks of narratives and their relationship to the collective language of imagery. “Morph” also implies transformation, which refers to Julie’s constant state of flux.
In addition to her personal work, Julie’s freelance photography clients include Chestnut Street Teen Center (Newton, MA), blowUP media, UK, The American University of Rome, Shillam & Smith Architects, Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Bengali Community Development Project, and the Safer London Foundation. She also enjoys portraiture and has photographed several weddings and events. Julie’s work has been published in The Moon: Women watch themselves being looked at – CT Editions (June 2009), “Time Out” London for Children 2008/2009 and Society Today Magazine, Nov/Dec 2005.
In addition to her career as a photographer, Julie’s professional background includes executive recruitment, marketing, educational administration, and volunteer training and management. Based in Boston Massachusetts since early 2010, Julie lived in London, UK for more than 16 years and has traveled to approximately 55 countries.