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Julie O'Connor is
a fine art photographer and photojournalist who has traveled the world
in search of powerful and poetic images for more than 25 years. After
her experiences in Tibet, she created the “Doors of Tibet”
art poster, as well as a series of fine art images, note cards and post
cards of Tibet, which are now on sale in museum stores and Asian arts
stores across America and through her website: www.JulieOConnor.com
Inspired and informed by her work on the Doors of Tibet, a project was
created called the Doors of Weston, which resulted in a book
based on her photographs of doors in her hometown of Weston, CT. During
the summer of 2006, the local newspaper, the Weston Forum, published a
nine-part series on the doors of Weston, utilizing Julie’s photographs.
The newspaper went on to win a New England Press Association (NEPA) award
for community involvement for this innovative series. Julie continued
to photograph throughout 2007 and 2008, finally culminating in the publication
of her fine art photography book, Doors of Weston, in December
2008. Doors of Weston has been published in partnership with
the Weston Historical Society. All proceeds from the sale of this collectable
book go to the Weston Historical Society’s Archive Building project.
Julie O’Connor’s work has been exhibited and is now in the
permanent collection of The Chicago Art Institute, as well as a variety
of private collections. Her 1980s exhibition, “Far From Home,”
at Manhattan's pioneering Chinatown gallery, the Basement Workshop, detailed
the drama of the Asian refugee resettlement experience in the U.S. Her
photojournalism has appeared in Time, The New York Times, New York Magazine,
Travel & Leisure, People, The Christian Science Monitor, UNICEF calendars,
and many other distinguished publications. Julie has curated corporate
art collections and local shows of art and photography in Connecticut.
She studied photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
with master photographer Kenneth Josephson, and at the New School for
Social Research in New York with the legendary Lisette Model.
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