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2008: Julia Dean

01 June 2012
Published in Person of the Year

After 4 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Julia Dean, to see how his career has progressed.

A month after receiving PhotoMedia's 2008 award, Julia Dean and her partner, Jay Adler, along with their dogs, embarked on a year-long trek across America in a motor home — "he the writer, I the photographer, working on a project about contemporary Native American life," she says. When not traveling, Dean takes several weeks each year to...

Julia Dean: Sharing a Vision with the Next Generation

03 September 2008
Published in Person of the Year

The founder of one of the nation's most prestigious photo workshops is helping aspiring photographers carry on her passion for socially concerned imagery.

Committed. Concerned. Caring. Those three C's pretty much sum up photographer Julia Dean, who not only has incorporated those elements into her life and work but also has strived to encourage other photographers to do so through her teaching.

"The thing that impresses me most about Julia is her desire to make a difference in people's lives," says longtime friend Reid Callanan, founder and director of the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops.

This year, Dean, who established the prestigious Julia Dean Photo Workshops nearly a decade ago, is moving into high gear with her love of photography about...