Gradual Halation

About the Photographer

Weber, Julie

American, b. 1984

Julie Weber considers the process, materiality, light-sensitivity, and impermanence of various forms of photography. Often working entirely without a camera, her various series break down the physicality of a photograph as a locked image on paper into newly interpreted abstract forms. Interested in photography’s ephemeral nature and susceptibility to fading and color shifting, Weber emphasizes the merits of the medium’s changeability and pushes the form into new imagined territories.

For "Sheet 1 (Reconstructed Disclosure)," Weber shreds multiple chromogenic development prints to use as material for making new unique sheets of handmade paper. The resulting somewhat blank page is presented on its own, suggesting a future narrative of the medium yet to be filled in. Her book, “Remnants” (Skylark Editions, 2017), gives excess scraps from the dye-sublimation photo printing process a new life through rearrangement and reinterpretation. This book was inspired by Weber’s time working in a one-hour photo processing lab in the early 2000s during the transition from the vernacular use of film to digital photography.

Julie Weber completed her MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2014), served as an artist-in-residence at the Chicago Arts Coalition (2015), and has since exhibited in and around the Chicago area, where she is based.