Juliana Beasley

Joanna on the Boat, 2011
From The Water Sisters

C-Print
8 x 8 in., ed. of 10
Set of 12 prints, $1800.00
18.5 x 18.5 in., ed. of 7, $1400.00
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Juliana Beasley was born in 1967 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. After graduating from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1990, she began working as a freelance photographer, covering New York City nightlife for the Village Voice. Her four-year project on exotic dancers culminated in the book "Lapdancer" (PowerHouse Books, 2003), an intimate photographic and text account of the world of strip clubs. Her new long-term project, "Last Stop: Rockaway Park", about a forgotten and impoverished white community of the institutionalized and mentally ill patients has been shown in the United States in a variety of galleries, as well as, abroad including, Frieze Art Festival of London, Basel Miami and Galleri Konstrast in Sweden. Beasley is also the winner of various awards including the PX3 Human Condition Awards and the Camera Club of New York. In 2007, she was nominated for the prestigious International Center of Photography (ICP) Infinity Awards. In 2009, she won two grants, the prestigious Aaron Siskind Award and the New Jersey Council of the Arts. Her work is a permanent part of the photography collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. In 2010, her second monograph,"Sete 2010, Juliana Beasley", a collection of portraits taken during a residency in the south of France was published with Images En Maoeuvres. Ms. Beasley lives in Jersey City, USA. Her work is represented by Contact Press Images.