PHOTOGRAPHER
ABOUT ME
JULIE DWORKIN
PHOTOGRAPHY
CHICAGO
I did not choose photography. It was something that found me. When I was 24, I bought a point and shoot camera to take with me on a road trip across the country. I had not owned a camera since the instamatic I had when I was eight. I found that taking pictures became an important part of my journey that summer and I discovered I had an eye for it. After that, I started taking photography classes, set up a dark room and joined a cooperative gallery. I spent 10 years pursuing this passion until I got pregnant with my daughter. I didn’t want to continue to work with the darkroom chemicals during my pregnancy. After my daughter was born, I found that with working and being a mom, somehow I no longer had those 4-5 hour stretches necessary to set up print, wash, dry, and clean up a dark room.
So my passion lay dormant for almost ten years. It had been so long that many of the friends didn’t know I ever took photographs. Once my kids were both in school full-time, I got my first digital SLR camera. And started over in a completely different format. I have been thrilled to have my work embraced by galleries in Logan Square where I live. I hope to keep shooting and sharing what I shoot.
EXHIBITIONS
2019 Rickshaw Republic "17,000 Islands: Indonesia 2017," Solo Exhibit, Chicago,IL
2018 Oliva Gallery "Life in Motion,"Photography Exhibit with Deborah McCoy and Wendy
Love, Chicago, IL, Portraits on a Logan Square Swing
2015 Voice of the City "Reflected Light," Solo Photography Installation, Chicago, IL
Color photography exploring reflections, light, and color
2003 No Friction Café "From Bangkok to Hong Kong Overland, “ Solo Exhibit, Chicago, IL
Black and white photography taken in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and China exploring the contrast between poverty and wealth
2001 The Art House "Chicago River by Bicycle and Canoe," Exhibit, Oak Park, IL
Black and white photography taken along the length of the Chicago River from the perspective of the land and from a boat on the river
1998 The Art House "Julie Dworkin: Infrared Photography and Polaroid Transfers," Solo Exhibit, Oak Park, IL
1997 The Unicorn Café "The Invisible Spectrum,"Solo Exhibit, Evanston, IL
Infrared Photography
PRESS
2018 Block Club Chicago "Photographer Captured Two Weeks of
Unbridled Joy on Logan Square’s Mysterious Rope Swing," August 20, 2018
2003 Chicago Reader "On Exhibit: Travels Through Starvation and Luxury," January 10, 2003
2003 Citylink "Artist Profile: Julie Dworkin, From Bangkok to Hong Kong Overland," January 10-January 16, 2003
2001 Wednesday Journal "A River Runs Through it," June 20, 2001
2001 Chicago Reader "Going with the Flow," June 8, 2001