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 in 2006.
Receiving a commendation in the Renaissance Photography Prize 2009 for an image from her series The Slow Burn, and represented by Sela Art Ventures, Julie is an emerging voice in the contemporary photograhic art arena.
Her freelance photography clients include 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.
Julie's academic studies in literature
and photography provide the theoretical context for her personal works,
which she collectively self-defines as "auto-morphographies"
- auto because her photography practice is an investigation into her identity
and her narrative - a re-telling of her history – autobiography, myths
retold, body bold, memory, dreams, intentions. “Auto” also deliciously
references the surrealist practice of letting the subconscious flow through
automatic drawing or writing - much as her photography flows through her.
Morphology, the study of the internal structure of words, focuses on patterns
of word formation, and morphographic knowledge involves understanding that
particular letter clusters carry meaning. Translate this concept into imagery,
and her growing body of work examines the building blocks of narratives
and their relationship to the collective language of imagery. “Morph”
also implies transformation, which she describes as "my constant state
of flux."
In addition to her career as a photographer, Julie's professional background includes marketing, public relations, educational administration, and volunteer training and management. Based in London for more than 15 years, Julie is originally from the United States, she has lived in China and Japan and traveled to approximately 50 countries.