Rockaways Book Project

Juliana Beasley graduated from the Photography Department at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1990. She began her photographic career by working in a number industry-related jobs (assisting, lighting, studio managing), including working as a printer for Annie Leibovitz’s project on the Mark Morris Dance Company. In 1992, she resided in Albania and completed a photographic report on Albanian child-laborers. A year later she did a follow up on the hardships of Albanian immigrants residing and working in Italy under servile conditions of which was published in The Christian Science Monitor in the United States.

The same year, she also began an eight-year photo/text essay on the interpersonal relationships between customer and dancers within the club milieu. Lapdancer was published by powerHouse Books in 2003 and was well received and widely reviewed nationally and internationally in such magazines as The New Yorker. Picture Magazine, and the on-line magazine, MSN Slate.

In 2004, Lapdancer was presented the opening show of powerHouse Books Gallery. In the fall of 2005, Ms. Beasley had a one women show of Lapdancer and selections from her latest book project about a community struggling with mental illness and substance abuse in Rockaway Beach, New York City at the documentary gallery, Galleri Kontrast . She is the third place winner of the 2006 Camera Club award juried by Antonin Kratochvil and her work can be viewed on pH Gallery on-line in the fall of 2006.

Ms. Beasley’s work has been published in the Village Voice, The Christian Science Monitor, Max Magazine in Germany, de L’Air in France amongst many other international and national magazines. Ms. Beasley’s work is represented by Contact Press Images.