Julia Borissova was born in Tallinn, Estonia. She lives in St.Petersburg, Russia where she studied at the Academy of Photographic skills in 2009-2010.
Julia Borissova employs a great variety of photographic techniques and styles. Her interest is in the conceptual side of the work. Over the last years, she focused her artistic expression on photobook projects that she self-publishes and often produces herself as handmade objects.
Photo: ©juliaborissova.ru
Julia Borissova was born in Tallinn, Estonia. She lives in St.Petersburg, Russia where she studied at the Academy of Photographic skills in 2009-2010.
Julia Borissova employs a great variety of photographic techniques and styles. Her interest is in the conceptual side of the work. Over the last years, she focused her artistic expression on photobook projects that she self-publishes and often produces herself as handmade objects.
Photo: ©juliaborissova.ru
Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows. Her last solo exhibitions include Maybe an Island, at the Art-Village Vitland, Kaliningrad, Russia, in 2018, and 'Julia Borissova – Artists’ Books Exhibition', at The Bower Ashton Library, Centre for Fine Print Research, in UWE Bristol, UK, in 2017.
She was recently shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Award 2018 - Fotobookfestival, and the Facts and Clarifications Festival, Riga Photomonth, 2017.
2018 DOM (Document Object Model), Self published art book (Kassel Dummy Award) - The second english edition, 75 signed copies
2018 Let Me Fall Again, Self published art book - Limited-edition of 239 signed copies
2018 WHITE BLONDE, Editions Bessard - Limited-edition of 250 signed copies with signed C-Print
2017 J.B. about men floating in the air, Self published art book - The second edition of 300 signed and numbered copies
2017 LULLABY FOR A BRIDE - Limited-edition of 100 signed copies
2017 LIBRETTO, Postcards Set - Edition of 105 signed and numbered copies
2017 RED GISELLE, Self published art book - Limited-edition of 100 signed copies
2016 LIBRETTO, Self published art book (Leporello binding) - The first edition, 105 signed copies
2016 Dimitry, Self published art book - The first edition, 100 signed copies
2015 J.B. about men floating in the air, Self published art book - First Edition of 75 copies
2015 Address, Self published art book (Dummy Award Kassel 2013) - The first english edition, 100 signed copies
2014 Running to the Edge, Self published art book - Print Edition of 100, signed and hand numbered
2014 Running to the Edge, Self published art book - Special edition 20 signed copies
2013 The Farther Shore, Selfpublished - Limited-edition of 100, signed and hand numbered
"V" Zine Set (*signed & numbered*)
.Sold out. Presentation by Julia Borissova: " I am fond of the artist book form and have created about 14 books over the past 10 years. Most of the titles are sold out. Some time ago I decided to rethink some of my projects and realize them in a new, more concentrated form of zines. In almost half a year I managed to implement this idea and today I am...
Presentation by the artist: "« Antarctica is a special place with particular stories and memories, the polar explorers called it white blonde. In this work I used found photographs from the Antarctic. I decided to freeze them to get such images, which could express a sense of awareness of time, death and the inevitable decay through this transformation....
DOM (Document Object Model - 2nd ed.)...
Presentation of the project by the artist: "In my project DOM I refer to the concept of home.«Dom» means a house, home, a building or a household in the Russian language. As a model for creation of the maquette of houses, I chose the kind of mass housing, so-called «Khruschyovka». They were built in Russia in the era of Khrushchev. After Stalin's Empire...
.Sold out. Presentation by the artist: "An incident that happened in the end of the XVIth century Russia became a starting point for this work. Tsarevich Dimitry, the last son of Ivan the Terrible died under mysterious circumstances from a knife wound to his throat, people speculated on the possible various causes for his death. I was intrigued by how the...
DOM (Document Object Model) (*signed*)
Presentation of the project by the artist: "In my project DOM I refer to the concept of home.«Dom» means a house, home, a building or a household in the Russian language. As a model for creation of the maquette of houses, I chose the kind of mass housing, so-called «Khruschyovka». They were built in Russia in the era of Khrushchev. After Stalin's Empire...