About

Julia Wimmerlin is a Ukrainian-born Swiss-based photographer and visual artist. After leaving her native Kyiv, she resided and worked in various countries across Europe and Asia. Armed with degrees in Economics and Marketing, she pursued an international marketing career until 2014 when she transitioned to travel photography. Julia is primarily self-taught, drawing upon her background in advertising to create clear impactful visual stories.

The early 2020-s upheavals profoundly impacted her, leading to a metamorphosis in her photographic approach. Julia weathered seismic shifts in her artistic journey from travel to contemporary mixed media. Embracing contemporary fine art photography, she embarked on in-depth research projects, seeking to understand the evolving world around her and her role within it. Striving for deeper subject representation, Julia committed to a private long-term art education program.

These upheavals also left their mark on the aesthetics of Julia's works, evolving vibrant concrete imagery into symbolic representations bordering on the dreamlike. Embracing the concept of postmodernism, Julia explores the endless citation and reinterpretation of "grand narratives". Her subjects, ranging from travel and animals to studio work, now manifest as mystical visions. Blurring the boundaries of reality, the interplay of colours and lines in her photographs creates semi-abstract, feminine, and elusive, surrealistic compositions brimming with emotion. Each photograph serves as a portal into the subconscious, where myths and realities intertwine. Much like dreams encapsulate our daily concerns, future fears, and past memories, Julia's works possess simultaneously retrospective, contemporary and futuristic qualities. They capture moments of clarity within the abstract, only to morph into elusive forms that challenge recognition. Her photographs embody the paradoxical essence of dreams—vivid yet ephemeral, logical yet surreal. Despite photographing diverse subjects, Julia's work remains cohesive.

Julia’s photographs have been published in various prestigious publications including National Geographic,  GEO, The Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, and Le Figaro, amongst others. Her works have been exposed in Canada, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland and USA. She was awarded the title “Photographer of the Year” at the Moscow International Photo Awards and has achieved winning placements in competitions such as the International Photo Awards, Tokyo International Photo Awards, Prix de la Photographie Paris, amongst others. Additionally, she has been shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards.