Julia Sarantis is a Sydney-based photographer and archivist whose work sits at the intersection of image, memory, and community. Raised as the youngest of four sisters in a Greek-Australian household in the Shire, Julia (aka Jules) grew up observant, introspective, and dreaming far beyond her surroundings.
Photography became her language - a way to speak about the world without having to negotiate every word. Today, her practice centres queer-identity, diaspora, and club cultures in so-called Australia, with a particular focus on ballroom and music spaces as sites of joy, kinship, and resistance.
Through her lens, these spaces become history, joy becomes political, and archiving becomes an act of care - a way of saying: we were here, we are here, and we matter.
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