Artist Statement
The photographs of Julia Schiller open windows into a deeply reflective world of shadows and unclear boundaries. Following an invisible pattern, travelling alongside the dreamlike landscapes of her characters is an invitation to take part in her inner journey. Dark passages alternate with light-flooded scenes in order to submerge with the subconscious again.
Julia builds her photographic work like an open book of her emotions, fears and hopes.
Capturing the world around her is an intimate exploration of personal encounters and relationships, stretches of happiness, silence, love and isolation, notions of coincidence, chance and echoes thereof. Her images are reflections on letting things come and letting things go, watching emotions build up, momentarily giving meaning to our lives. In the end, it is about finding a place in the world – a personal but at the same time universal quest for the sense of belonging – to someone or some place one would call home.
Julia Schiller was born in 1980 and is a photographer and freelance art director based in Berlin, Germany. In her work she explores notions of silence and chaos, coincidence, freedom, choice and echoes thereof – questioning fragile human idiosyncrasies and variables such as alienation and intimacy, rationality and instinct. Her photographic work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and featured in a range of online publications. Her design work has received international awards, including a red dot award for excellent design quality.
Together with Oliver Schneider she is the founding editor of "Actual colors may vary” {ACMV} – an online magazine dedicated to showcasing and promoting distinctive work primarily from an international community of emerging photographers and artists.
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