Julie Blackmon featured in A Cup of Joe

Laying Out

I Can’t Stop Looking at Julie Blackmon’s Photography

By Joanna Goddard

The oldest of nine children, photographer Julie Blackmon now has 100 relatives living in her Springfield, Missouri neighborhood. She photographs her nieces and nephews in beautiful but unsettling scenes — maybe a child is floating upside down in a pool or climbing too high on a rope. “It’s like, how do I explore the charm and grace of everyday life and still reveal a little bit of the dark side?” says Julie. 

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