julia@juliagunther.com
+31 642256188
currently on Tristan da Cunha

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.

My photography has been exhibited worldwide at venues and festivals such as Zilveren Camera, Photoville, and the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award, Gomma Grant, Rabo Photographic Portrait Prize, World Report Award, and Felix Schoeller Photography Award. It has also been selected for multiple editions of the AI-AP American Photography books and archive.

I am a Pulitzer Center grantee and an International Women’s Media Foundation Fellow. My work has received honours from the GLAAD Media Awards, the Wellcome Photography Prize, the New York Photo Festival, and the LensCulture Exposure Awards.

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Publications

Personal work

BBC Future Planet

How do you sustainably operate a commercial lobster fishery inside one of the world’s largest marine protected area?

This story, published on BBC Future Planet, and supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Deep Dive Ocean & Fisheries Reporting Grant, explores the relationship between the community of Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island, with the ocean that surrounds it, in particular, Jasus Tristani, the Tristan lobster.

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Return to Kenya for NPR

What happens when women challenge a system that trades sex for fish?

On the shores of Lake Victoria, Kenya, the No Sex for Fish group turned the tables by buying their own boats and hiring fishermen to work for them. After first visiting in 2019 for NPR, I returned to Kisumu in 2024 to see how the women are coping as floods and new health risks threaten the future of their cooperative.

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