Photographer & Visual Artist

I’m Julie Burke, an Australian photographer and visual artist with over three decades of professional creative practice.

I work across commissioned photography and independent projects, bringing the same considered approach to both. My commissioned work includes equine, product and portrait photography, while my independent practice extends through travel, landscape and wildlife, working across digital, 35mm and medium-format film.

For commissions, collaborations, licensing or print enquiries, please get in touch.

Equine

My relationship with horses exists well beyond photography: I work with and care for them as part of everyday life. That experience informs a body of work that includes commissioned portraits alongside photographs of the worked horse - the labour, behaviour and individual character that disappear easily beneath the familiar equestrian image.

Product

With a background in visual art and making, I approach product photography with an understanding that the object is the end point of somebody else’s decisions, labour and skill. I work with artists, makers and businesses to create photographs that communicate not only what has been made, but what is particular about it — for use across web, editorial and commercial applications.

People

People enter my work through what they do as much as through how they look. Portraits sit alongside performers and people at work, with gesture, surroundings and the unplanned allowed to carry information rather than being cleaned away for the sake of a conventional portrait.

Travel

Travel is where much of my photographic practice comes together: digital alongside 35mm and medium-format film, and an interest in place that extends beyond the recognisable view. The resulting work is less a catalogue of destinations than an accumulating record of how places are actually occupied, altered and experienced.

Landscape

Landscape sits within a wider visual-art practice concerned with place rather than scenery. Across film and digital work, water, weather, duration and human intervention repeatedly unsettle the apparently fixed view - allowing landscape to operate as subject rather than backdrop.

Wildlife

Wildlife is photographed as part of the same sustained attention to place that runs through the wider practice. Rather than separating the animal from its surroundings, the work follows the brief exchanges, interruptions and behaviours through which an animal becomes more than simply a specimen in the frame.