Julia Dean is the director of the Julia Dean Photo Workshops. Throughout her career, she has traveled to more than 40 countries while freelancing for numerous relief groups and magazines. She is also the author/photographer of the children’s book, A Year on Monhegan Island. Julia received a Bachelor of Science degree in photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts degree in journalism at the University of Nebraska. She began her career as an apprentice to famed photographer Berenice Abbott. Later, Julia was a photo editor for the Associated Press in New York.

She has taught for 25 years at such places as the University of Nebraska, Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Santa Monica College, the Santa Fe Workshops, the Maine Photographic Workshops and the Julia Dean Photo Workshops.

Julia is also the director of a collaborative project Child Labor and the Global Village: Photography for Social Change, which involves 11 photojournalists who have been selected to cover stories about child labor around the world.

 This event is being hosted by Oceanside Photo & Telescope.