Julia Zyrina was born in the USSR and has been living in the Netherlands since 2013. She is a mobile photographer whose work centers on family life, capturing the playful and curious moments of her children as they explore the world around them. Working at the intersection of photography and mixed media, she transforms her mobile images through embroidery, cyanotype, collage and acrylic, creating works that add new layers of meaning and interpretation to everyday scenes.
Julia is a winner of IPPAWARDS 2025 and was shortlisted for the 2024 Global Peace Photo Awards. Her work has also received recognition from LensCulture, the Mobile Photography Awards, the Turkey Mobile Photography Awards. Her photographs have been showcased at photography festivals in Arles, São Paulo and Trieste and featured in group exhibitions in cities including Rome, Venice, Paris, Milan, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yoshkar-Ola, Cardiff, New York, Hong Kong, Porto.
