Domestic Vacations by Julie Blackmon, January/February 2010

“Julie Blackmon’s photographs are a flawless combination of the spontaneous and the skillfully orchestrated.. simultaneously real and surreal, awesome, while at the same time comforting.”

Editor Paul Schranz interviews Jule Blackmon, whose Domestic Vacations portfolio depicts family life with an enchanting twist. She reveals some of the methods she employs to light her amazing group portraits.

Award-winning photographer Julie Blackmon was named American Photo‘s Emerging Photographer of 2008 and was among PDN‘s top 30 in 2007. Her work is included in the collections of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. Her book, Domestic Vacations, is published by Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM (2008).