Julia Zyrina was born in the USSR and has been living in the Netherlands since 2013. She is a mobile photographer focused on family life, capturing the playful and curious moments of her children as they explore the world around them. In addition to photography she experiments with embroidery on her images, adding color and thread to her black-and-white photographs, giving her work new meanings and layers of interpretation.
Julia is a winner of IPPAWARDS 2025 and was shortlisted for the 2024 Global Peace Photo Awards, among other recognitions such as the LensCulture Awards, 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.
