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Julia Skopnik was born in Schönebeck (Elbe), a city in the former German Democratic Republic, in 1988. Two years later, Germany celebrated the German reunification. It was a time full of changes and uncertainness. Growing up in a small town in East Germany in the 90s meant living surrounded by abandoned places and rare cultural attractions. Finding an old camera as a teenager that originally belonged to her parents sparked her fascination for film and photography. Starting out by mainly capturing her daily life with friends and the tristesse of her hometown, she began using photography to express herself.
 
After leaving school, Julia began to study psychology, but never lost interest in analog photography. She won the Young Talent Award of dieHO Galerie (Magdeburg, DE) in 2009 and was one of the winners of the German Youth Photography Award in 2015.
 
After working a few years as a psychologist in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, Julia's desire to combine the two major topics in her life, psychology and art, grew strong enough for her to take up studying art therapy at Weißensee Academy of Arts, Berlin. At this time, she began exploring the possibilities of darkroom printing, resulting in her greatest passion so far. She experimented with a lot of different approaches and tried to find new ways to move slightly away from using traditional techniques. Her works have been shown in several exhibitions, most recently at the Urban Nation Museum, Berlin.
 
Currently, Julia balances working as an art therapist in the field of child and adolescence psychiatry and being a freelance artist. Both fields operate in the realm of darkness, striving to shed light by delving into the depths of the human psyche or revealing images within the seclusion of the darkroom.