“I think 40% of my class did documentary photography projects. One girl about her local Lidl – honestly really good. Another girl went to the motor race track a couple of weeks in a row and photographed there; another befriended her local council estate youths and documented them. Video-wise, one girl discovered this random salsa dancing place on Holloway Road, which turns into a place for Asian women and their English partners on Sunday evenings, and she set that to music.”
In a style different to her classmates’ photojournalistic explorations into council estates and budget supermarkets, Julia’s piece revolves around the simple and immediate beauty in human spontaneity. She put people on the spot with a slightly taboo topic: ‘What makes you feel sexy?’ We reversed the concept and asked Julia some questions of our own…
