Julie Shafer

Los Angeles based artist Julie Shafer is an Associate Professor of Photography at Chapman University. Her photography, photographic installations, and creative non-fiction writings examine how man has altered the American lands that historical photographs have mythologized.

She was invited by the National Park Service to create a site-specific installation at the Cabrillo National Monument- transforming a lighthouse into a camera obscura in 2016. Shafer did a TEDx talk about her project “Conquest of the Vertical” in 2013.

She received a B.A. from U.C. Irvine, and an M.F.A. from USC. She was invited to be an artist-in-residence and mentor in the Obracadobra Artist Residency in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2017. She is the recipient of a 2018 COLA Fellowship.

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http://finearts.cypresscollege.edu/photo/index.php/facultyandstaff/julie-shaffer/