Julie Sundberg is a Sydney-based photographic artist, with an academic background in art history and literature. Julie has decades of experience in education, stills photography, arts management and community work with a longstanding interest in social justice and storytelling.
Julie has worked with vulnerable people and communities since the 80’s: inmates, the unemployed, the homeless and others relegated to the margins of society. In London, Julie was Project Manager of both the Hackney Unemployed Media Scheme and the Chat’s Palace Women’s Photography Workshop. She also worked on an oral history project with female garment workers and with female truants in the East End of London.
Julie has lived in Sydney since the early 90’s. She lectured in photography at TAFE and Raffles College and was a tutor for many years at the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP). Julie also worked as the Executive Manager of Education and Outreach at the ACP, developing all aspects of the curriculum and setting up the Outreach Department. During this time Julie developed a highly successful photographic program with homeless youths.
Insight into the human condition takes visual shape in a broad art practice. Julie has concentrated on long-term projects related to time, memory and gender for many years. Empathy for those on the margins runs through Julie’s art practice and in her most recent work it is directed toward the landscape itself.
Julie has been a finalist in Australia’s most prestigious photography prizes: the Olive Cotton Award, the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, Australian Life, the CLIP Award, the IRIS Award, the National Photographic Portrait Prize, the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Head On Portrait Prize, the Ravenswood Prize for Women Artists and the Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize.
Photo Collective acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land and waters on which we live, work and travel. As people who seek meaning and knowledge through storytelling, we recognise that the First Peoples of this land have been doing so for over 60,000 years. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.
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