julia@juliagunther.com
+31 642256188
currently in The Netherlands

I am a Berlin-born documentary photographer exploring themes of representation, environment, identity, and social activism, often through long-term projects.

My work has been featured in international publications including NPR, The New York Times, Die Zeit, Bloomberg Businessweek, Al Jazeera, TIME, DAZED, and WIRED. I am a Pulitzer Center grantee and an International Women’s Media Foundation Fellow.

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Publications

Personal work

NPR: ‘The Busiest Place You’ve Never Seen'

You’d be forgiven for thinking that life on Tristan da Cunha is quiet: a hammock-strung-between-two-coconut-palms kind of existence, somewhere in the shimmering blue Pacific. It is anything but.

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‘Rainbow Girls: 10 Years Of Protection And Prejudice’ at Bertha House

Bertha House in Mowbray, Cape Town, South Africa, will be screening ‘Rainbow Girls: 10 Years of Protection and Prejudice’ on July 29th 2026.

Ten years after photographing contestants from the Miss Lesbian pageant in Khayelitsha, photographer Julia Gunther reunites with filmmaker (and former contestant) Velisa to reflect on what has changed - and what hasn’t - for black lesbian women in South Africa.

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