Artist Biography
I am a photographer from Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey. After taking a photography class in my junior year of high school on a whim, I fell in love with it. After getting my first camera, I went to every one of my brother’s hockey games to take pictures. Since then I have kept my love of action photography, while also trying out many new styles like fashion and lifestyle. Throughout my career at Endicott, I have had my work featured in the Endicott Student Invitational, in the 2021 show and then again in 2023 where I won first place. In the fall of 2022, I studied abroad in Italy, attending Florence University of the Arts, where my work was featured in Blending, a magazine published by the school, and the Fall 2022 Final Exhibit Between Fact and Fiction. I recently had to opportunity to show my work in the Emerging Cretives from Endicott College exhibit at MTU in Cork, Ireland. I was also able to do an internship with a photographer specializing in action shots, specifically dance. Having danced in the past I was able to really connect to this genre of photos and was excited to use what I learned when working on my capstone project.
Website: jtv428.myportfolio.com
Instagram: juliavogel_photography
Thesis Abstract
Setting out to take dance photos, I was inspired by Martha Graham saying that Barbra Morgan’s work “reveals the inner landscape that is a dancer’s world.” The intent of this body of work is just that, to bring the viewer into the dancer’s world. Traditionally dance photos are all about the dancer hitting the “perfect” pose, but with these images the goal was to focus on the dancers. Dance is such a special form of expression and each dancer has a unique relationship with it because at the end of the day, as a dancer, you have to dance for yourself. With this in mind, I wanted to create images that are different from the way most dance photos are made. I used different camera and lighting techniques to bring the focus to the dancer, therefore showing the dancer’s emotion and telling a story about the dancer’s connection to dance. Starting with dramatic lighting to mimic that of a stage, I found the result took you out of space and time, putting you in a different world, and continued to push that to create my final images.