BIOGRAPHY
Yulia Tregub Morris is a Los Angeles-based photographer specializing in fine art, lifestyle, personal branding, and reportage photography.
She was born in Moscow, Russia. Her photography journey began at the Moscow bureau of the Associated Press, where she worked as an accountant after her graduation with a Bachelor degree in Business Management. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Alexander Zemlianichenko recognized her talent and became her long-term mentor in photography. She photographed fashion shows, theatre performances, daily news, and protests, contributing to the Associated Press. In 2013 she immigrated to the United States and continued working as a freelance photographer, photographing events, people, using her love to tell a story with a camera.
Her photographs have been published in Time, The Washington Post, and other outlets, and included in numerous exhibitions in both Los Angeles and Moscow. Her personal work explores people in their environment, daily life, and moments in between.
She is active in the photo community and you can often find her at various local art events, exhibitions, and art shows either showcasing her work or as a guest. She is a member of the Los Angeles Center of Photography and the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Yulia uses her lens to study the relation of people to place, space to time, and herself to others as a human being. People in their environment, street scenes, and nature are her interests, and finding beauty and humanity in seemingly ordinary moments of daily life inspires her. Yulia is intrigued by how streets come alive, and enjoys capturing candid portraits of people in their own world and thoughts. She likes stopping these moments in time and catching the ephemeral life in them, all the while being fully present in the here and now, ready to capture that critical moment. The pursuit for the real gives her clarity and freedom of being.
PUBLICATIONS:
Time, Washington Post, New York Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, Arizona Daily Star, The New Indian Express, The Moscow News, Leica Russia, Leica USA, Chinese Photographers Magazine, Lenscratch, and other online and print outlets.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
2024
Projecting L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2023
Life Cycles, Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2022: A Year of Duality, American Society of Media Photographers LA, Photo Impact Imaging, Hollywood, CA
2022
Call & Response 17: Collaboration at a Distance, Online exhibition, Shoebox PR
2021
Another Year in LA, online exhibition
Virtual Photographs During the Stay at Home Order, Open Show by Pasadena Photography Arts
2020
WFH, New York Chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers
Call & Response 10: Collaboration at a Distance, Online exhibition, Shoebox PR
Togethering, Online exhibition, Houston Center for Photography
Roller Coaster Ride On The Pier, Your Daily Photograph
Self-Quarantinig, Lenscratch
Self-Isolation series, Your Daily Photograph
stARTup Art Fair, Venice, CA
Project XV: New Perspectives in Photography, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Square Off/LA, Culver City Art Walk, Culver City, CA
Perception of Beauty, SELECTION Art Show, Touchon & Co Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collaboration is the New Sexy, TESCI, Santa Monica, CA
Russian Series, SELECTION Art Show, Touchon & Co Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
stARTup Art Fair, Venice, CA
2018
The Creative Portrait, Los Angeles Center of Photography, jurors: Nicholas and David Fahey
Art + Fashion + Music, Jeanie Madsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Analog vs. Digital, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Street Shooting Around the World, Los Angeles Center of Photography, juror: Gus Powell
Discover New Work, The Los Angeles based Duncan Miller Gallery's "Your Daily Photograph”
2017
Santa Monica College juried photo exhibition, The Broad Stage, Santa Monica, CA
2016
Paradox, The Los Angeles based Duncan Miller Gallery's "Your Daily Photograph”
MOPLA Pro’ject LA, SmashBox studios, Los Angeles, CA
Finalist of The Best of Russia 2016 project
Santa Monica College juried photo exhibition, The Broad Stage, Santa Monica, CA
2012
Year Without Censorship, Fotoloft Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2011
Best Photographs of the Museum, Moscow State Museum “House of Burganov”, Moscow, Russia