Worlds amazing young photographer

Julia is rapidly developing a reputation as one of the leading young photographers in the country. She has won a large number of awards, and her images have been hung in the National Portrait Gallery, London, at Paris-Photo, at Photo-London, and shown at Arles. She has also had solo exhibitions in London, and contributed to a group show in New York. She has also been profiled in many professional and popular photographic magazines.


Julia was born in Bremen, Germany to a German mother and an English father. The family then moved to the United States, and back to Germany, before moving to England in 1986. Julia now lives in London.


After graduating with a Diploma in photography from Berkshire College of Art and Design, Julia spent five years as a freelance assistant. During this time, the shoots covered a wide variety of different fields - car advertisement, still-life, fashion, food, location shots, etc. She was able to hone her knowledge and skills, and at the same time begin to develop her own unique style.


Uniquely, for these shoots, Julia deliberately select girls who are not proffesional models. Once she has the idea for the shoot, she street casts the models. This produces a slight awkwardness in the posture of the models that enhances the unusual surroundings. Another difference is Julia's use of studio lighting to supplement daylight/ She may use as many as seven or eight lash heads to achieve the impression that she wants. This combination of eye for the content of an image, the naturalness of the models, the unusual surroundings, the effect of the lighting all combine to yield a style that identifies her pictures.

Pictures which are talking for themselves?

They say that one picture is worth a thousand words…but what about pictures which are talking for themselves?!

Last moments of Flight BA38's dramatic descent into Heathrow

These are the dramatic moments when disaster stalked Heathrow.

In a few seconds of terror, flight BA38 skims rooftops, clears the airport perimeter fence by inches and bellyflops on to the grass hurling lumps of broken metal into the air.

The pictures were taken by flight dispatcher David Spalton, who was taking photos of aircraft landing from a perimeter road.


He has handed them to investigators in the hope they will provide clues as to what caused the Boeing 777 to lose power two miles from touchdown at 600ft last Thursday.

He said yesterday: "It was a frightening experience. I'm not what you would describe as a plane spotter but I work in the industry so I have an interest.

"You could tell instantly that this aircraft was in trouble. It was obviously way too low. It was about 250ft lower than the other ones that had been coming in.

"The nose was up too far as well. It just didn't look right and there wasn't much noise.

"I thought to myself, 'that plane will not make the runway'."



As the jet hit the damp ground, he witnessed the undercarriage being torn apart and saw bits of metal flying off. An engine cover was ripped off on impact and thrown 60ft into the air.

Seconds later, the plane reached a halt at the edge of the runway. Mr Spalton continued to photograph as the emergency chutes came down and fire engines arrived.

Thanks to the heroics of First Officer John Coward, all 152 passengers and crew were evacuated with just 18 suffering minor injuries. A detailed investigation report is due within 30 days.


"When it hit the ground I was convinced there would be serious injuries," said Mr Spalton.

"It was remarkable nobody was in a worse state."

Samsung's 70-inch LCD panel

GPNC launched its 70-inch LCD TV for electronic board in Korea market, which adopts Samsung’s LCD TV panel supporting full HD, 8000:1 contrast ratio, 8ms response speed and 700 cd/m2 brightness.
As the 70-inch electronics blackboard is equipped with built-in computer, users can convert TV to pc by using remote control and utilize a variety of video, photo and text files stored in pc, and directly search information on the web. It also offers touchscreen, wireless LAN and wireless keyboard.

Week in Photos

Ponte de Lima, Portugal. A villager gets thrown by a stampeding bull in the center of the historic riverside town of Ponte de Lima.
As part of the annual "Vacas das Cordas" celebrations, which stretch back 350 years, town residents chain a bull to the church, pour wine on it, and then release it into the streets.



Helsinki, Finland. A crucial soccer game in Finland came to what you might call a screeching halt when a wild owl flew onto the field.
Nineteen minutes into the Euro 2008 qualifier match, a northern eagle owl swooped in and roosted on one of the goals at the end of the pitch. After a minute or two, it flew to the opposing team's goal, where it continued to suspend play for another five minutes.
Fans cheered as the owl refused to budge, and officials conferred on how to unseat the winged predator.
In time, the owl took off again, flew a couple of laps around the stadium, and perched on a railing at the end of the field while Finland bested Belgium, 2-0.



London, England. While spring cleaning is a big challenge for the average person, the task is even larger for conservators at London's Natural History Museum.
How large? About 50 feet (15 meters) in this case—the size of an average male sperm whale.
The conservator seen above is sweeping ten years of dust off a sperm whale skeleton in the museum's whale room, which is now closed for cleaning and expected to reopen in July.
The sperm whale, weighing on average 40 tons, is the largest toothed whale on the planet. Whalers hunted the species almost to extinction for its spermaceti oil, blubber, and meat throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.
Herman Melville famously brought the story of a sperm-whale hunt to life in 1851 with his novel Moby Dick



Lahore, Pakistan. Hundreds gather in a canal to cool themselves as temperature in the Pakistani city soar to 109.4 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius).
Lahore is the country's second largest city and the capital of the Punjab Province, which is characterized by a spring monsoon followed by a very hot summer.
On June 6 thousands of activists braved the heat to gather outside the city’s provincial assembly to urge Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf to resign.
The president’s recent media restrictions and his suspension of a popular supreme court judge spurred the demonstrations, according to the Associated Press.
And at least for the weather, things aren’t likely to cool down anytime soon. Forecasts predict temperatures in Lahore to rise as high as 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 degrees Celsius) by the week’s end.



Wuhan, China. It might resemble a giant pot of bouillabaisse, but this is one fish stew that will probably make you sick to your stomach.
Fish suffocated by the hundreds this week at a fishery near Wuhan, China, after an outbreak of blue-green algae used up too much of the oxygen in the water.
Authorities believe the algae bloom was sparked by dirty rainwater released by a pumping station upriver.
On May 22 a similar pollution-driven algae outbreak in Lake Tai in China's Jiangsu Province forced local authorities to shut off drinking water routed to the lakeside city of Wuxi.
"It came out bluish-green and smelled awful," Shi Qing, a tourist boat operator at Wuxi's lakeside Turtlehead Peninsula, told the Washington Post. "The lake was covered in algae and we had to send boats out to clear it."