Julia Dean is a photographer, educator, and founder and former executive director of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. She began her career as an apprentice to pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott. Later, Julia was a photo editor for the Associated Press in New York. She has traveled to more than 45 countries while freelancing as a photojournalist for numerous relief groups and magazines. Her extensive teaching experience includes 40 years at various colleges, universities and educational institutions, most recently at Santa Monica College in Los Angeles.
For the past two decades, Julia has concentrated on street photography around the world. For the past 12 years, street shooting in downtown Los Angeles has been her primary focus, which has led to "The Los Angeles Project," which is a group of street, documentary, and news photographers who cover L.A. extensively.
Julia received a Bachelor of Science degree in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts degree in journalism at the University of Nebraska, and is the author/photographer of the award-winning children’s book, A Year on Monhegan Island.
