Julia Nathanson

Julia Nathanson’s love affair with photography began at the age of ten, when she “borrowed” her mom’s classic Pentax Spotmatic. After graduating from McGill University, she developed her visual skills at the New York Film Academy, where she wrote, directed and edited a short film. In 2011 she got hip to this whole digital age thing, and so began her foray into mobile photography. No one is safe from her lens; she captures everyday subjects and transforms them into surreal visions. She has since been published in Hipstography, The App Whisperer, and National Geographic, and won a multitude of awards, including Hiptography’s Street Series of the Year in 2014 and 2015, and the Mobile Photo Grand Prize at PhotoIndependent in 2016. In between obsessing about the right “lens,” she manages to feed and clothe her two girls (who also happen to be unpaid models.) Julia lives and works in Toronto.

1998 - New York Film Academy
1992-1996 - McGill University - BA, Psychology

2019 “Summertime,” A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas
2019 Don’t Take Pictures “Dive In” - online exhibit
2019 Smart as Photography Exhibit, Zephyr Museum, Mannheim, Germany
2018 Photoplace Gallery “Water” - online exhibit
2018 Print Swap Holiday Exhibit, Root Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Iphoneography Exhibit, SE Centre for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina
2018 The North Mobile Photo Competition, Film North, St Paul, Minnesota
2017 MIRA Mobile Prize Street Photography, Espaço MIRA, Porto, Portugal
2017 MIRA Mobile Prize, Espaço MIRA, Porto, Portugal
2016 Photoindependent Mobile Photo Show, Los Angeles, California
2016 Shadow Stories, Sixteen Mile Arts, Milton, Canada
2015 Toronto Guardian Photo Competition, Toronto, Canada
2015 MIRA Mobile Prize, Espaço MIRA, Porto, Portugal
2015 Click.Boom.Amazing! Brussels, Belgium


AWARDS:

2019 Documentary Family Awards (7th Place/Honorable Mention)
2018 Iphone Photography Awards - Honorable Mention (children)
2017 Julia Margaret Cameron Award - Honorable Mention
2017 London Internation Creative Competition - Honorable Mention, "Kids of Summer"
2017 Mobile Photography Awards - Honorable Mention (travel & adventure)
2017 MIRA Mobile P...