Julia Vandenoever

Julia Vandenoever is a freelance photographer based in Boulder, Colorado.  She grew up in Chappaqua, NY and Norwich, Vermont. During her years at Smith College, Julia studied Art History and Photography. In addition, she attended the SALT Center for Documentary studies as well as SEA Semester. Photography led Julia to freelance at the Valley News, work with Wendy Ewald’s Literacy Through Photography program, and an 11 year Photo Editor career at Backpacker, Skiing, and Outside magazine.  In 2021, Still Breathing, received a solo show at the Center for Photography at Woodstock as well as a Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist. Still Breathing, was published as a monograph by Gray Sky Press in 2022 and was recently acquired by Smith College Rare Books. In this episode we speak with Julia about her upcoming show Becoming Grayson, which is an ongoing collaborative photography project with her sixteen-year-old son Grayson. They also dive into her deeply personal body of work documenting her immediate family, and how photography can be used to navigate memory, identity, and complex histories.