The delightfully odd world of Missouri photographer Julie Blackmon
by Jane Henderson
The littlest of Julie Blackmon’s subjects seem trapped in a giant bubble.
Older kids, meanwhile, dangle feet in a backyard pool in a nostalgic scene of summer freedom. Further scrutiny, though, shows a chef’s knife stabbed in a watermelon and a swimmer floating face down. Is he looking for a penny, testing his lung capacity or in trouble? No adult is in sight.