Rainy Sign

Julia Blaukopf

Julia Blaukopf is intrigued by both the unfamiliar and the ordinary. For the past four years she has traveled throughout Italy, Eastern Europe, Kenya and Ghana. Much of her work centers on new ways of depicting foreign places, blurring the lines between fine art and documentary, with a focus on workers, farmers, families and other emblems that compose the everyday. As a guest in another country, Blaukopf remains an outsider looking in, but with the goal of breaking the line between foreign traveler and inquisitive visitor.

Blaukopf is serious about using her passion as an artist to raise awareness and foster mutual understanding between communities on an international level. She does this by working as a creative partner with non-profits, ethically-minded businesses, media outlets, and educational institutions.

In 2005 Blaukopf worked with a community-run tree reforestation project in Kenya. Her most recent body of work focuses on her experience working with the local organization there at the foot of Mount Kenya. Her images of intimate moments between families, strangers in the city and local workers are aimed at creating an alternative documentary. The images have exhibited in Philadelphia and New York, most notably at Nexus Foundation for the Arts; the Icebox Gallery; The Camera Club; Moore College of Art Gallery; and in solo shows at The First Person Arts Festival and Kelly Writers House. In October, 2006 she traveled to Ghana to photograph Women in Progress, a non-profit group that empowers women of the community through a sustainable business of clothing manufacturing.

Blaukopf has been honored with the First Person Arts Fellowship, the Center for Emerging Artists Fellowship, The Camera Club of New York Resident Artist Award, and the Oregon College of Art & Craft Resident Photographer’s Award. She has spoken about her international photographic work at School of Visual Arts, The Art Institute, and University of the Arts. Publications include The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Weekly, Shots Magazine, and ASMP Bulletin.

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Evi Tchernikhovski, Moving Clouds

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Xavier Nuez, Alleys & Fire Escapes, no. 50 - "Deliverance"

Marni Horwitz, Three Brothers, Christmas 2001

Jeremy Sparig, Alphabet City after Snow Storm

Jerry and Orrin Zucker, The Strange Trip

Nick Fox-Gieg, The Story of Enoch

Jack Feldstein, The Loser Who Won

Hilla Lulu Lin, Rising of the Sunset

Loren Ellis, The World Cares

Andy Alpern, Fisherman

Jenny Krasner, Power Play X

Zohar Nir-Amitin, unexisted things exist in my head

Ahron Weiner, Ad Infinitum #167

Melissa Shiff, The Medium is the Matzo

Lilian Broca, Queen Esther

Doug Fogelson, Deluge

Peter Azrak, untitled

Art. Lebedev, New Candles

Ron Pokrasso, Altered Tune With A Connection To St. Johns Place

Anonymous, Shofar Kid

Gene Feldman, Color Test

Patricia Albouhair-Taieb, Thou Shalt Not Take the Name of the Lord in Vain

Mina Dareshet, Ocean

Mindy Stricke, Self-portrait

Jesse Mintz-Roth, untitled

Lynne Marie, Movement

Bill Bragg, Defending the Post

Jay Michaelson, Nighttime road

Allyson Grey, Magic Square

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Lauren Curtis, Flora meets Arcadia

John Hall, Untitled

Pamela Yates, Summer Sleeping

Paul Mindell, Greens, Jeans, and InBetweens

Jay Michaelson, Mayflowers

Bara Sapir, untitled

Bara Sapir, untitled

Jay Michaelson, Ice Tree

Jay Michaelson, untitled

Jay Michaelson, Eldorado Chanukah

Jose Campos, III, untitled

Jay Michaelson, Shofar Kitsch

Mica Scalin, Plates

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Jay Michaelson, Go in Peace

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