This series of portraits are a collection of photographs of people who Juli enjoys to create.
Portraits represent the artist's start with photographs since she first got a camera in the late 90's, and it is also a way she finds to communicate current issues, also a way to interact with people and to be able to learn about their cultures, their stories and their lives. These photographs include images from fictitious characters, strangers, friends, families to commissions and personalities, who are mostly in the arts, humanitarian or environmental fields.
Juli is constantly looking forward to portraying people. Commissions or invitations are possible worldwide by contacting the studio in London.
This series of portraits are a collection of photographs of people who Juli enjoys to create.
Portraits represent the artist's start with photographs since she first got a camera in the late 90's, and it is also a way she finds to communicate current issues, also a way to interact with people and to be able to learn about their cultures, their stories and their lives. These photographs include images from fictitious characters, strangers, friends, families to commissions and personalities, who are mostly in the arts, humanitarian or environmental fields.
Juli is constantly looking forward to portraying people. Commissions or invitations are possible worldwide by contacting the studio in London.
STUDIO
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Limited editions are available in this shop occasionally, offering our art lovers an opportunity to buy affordable prints direct from our studio. If you have interest in purchasing any other specific artwork please contact us and we are happy to help you. Keep tuned for more available prints .
NEWS
Introduction
Juli Manara is a Brazilian-born, London-based artist and photographer working across photography, film, and installations. She is best known for her photo works, which often blend elements of nature, imaginative landscapes, portraits and figures that symbolise our connection to the natural world.
She works between portraits of inspiring people and photographic montages. For the montages, her process begins in natural environments, where she uses various cameras and lenses to photograph and record everything she finds intriguing, from micro plants to clouds, trees, and mountains. Growing up near the Atlantic Forest in São Paulo, Juli draws significant inspiration from her tropical roots. Having been based in the United Kingdom for over fifteen years, she also incorporates the temperate and boreal scenes.
From her extensive image, film, and sound database, all captured by herself, she constructs "impossible pictures" by blending her imaginative scenarios with the selected photographs, which were all shot separately, into a completely new composition. Through a long and complex process, she modifies perspectives and tonalities to create a whimsical final piece.
Her work has been collected and exhibited internationally at prestigious venues, such as the Niterói Museum of Contemporary Art in Rio de Janeiro and the Tate Modern gallery. She was one of the selected artists to display during Dora Maar’s exhibition.
In 2023, her first short animation, crafted from recycled papers and photographs, was a finalist and selected by the Sustainable United Nations Film Awards, and displayed at the Piccadilly Circus Spotlights in London.
In 2025, Juli was invited to lead the first creative photography short course at the Royal Academy of Arts, where she was also commissioned to create outdoor billboard artworks to be displayed across London. Her most recent collaboration with The Macallan Scottish Whisky involved creating a large-scale, dreamy forest triptych artwork, using elements captured from their estate in the Highlands, for their new boutique at Heathrow International Airport.
Juli holds an MA from Goldsmiths University and has taught extensively at the Paris Speos International Photography School.
She currently lives and works between London and São Paulo, Brazil.
Commissions (Public & Corporate)
The Billboards - Commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts
The Macallan Forest - Commissioned by The Macallan - Displayed at Heathrow Airport
Lecturers & Talks
The Royal Academy of Arts - Guest Lecture - London, UK
Belmond Design and Interiors Team + ArtiQ Agency - London, UK
De La Warr Pavilion Curators and Patrons - Embassy of Brazil in London
Speos International Photography School - Paris & London
PUC University - São Paulo, Brazil
Unicamp University - São Paulo, Brazil
Exhibitions
2025 - Botanic Series Commission - The Macallan Boutique - London International Heathrow Airport
2025 - The Billboards - Commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts, Camden Market - London
2025 - Manacá - Solo Exhibition - Embassy of Brazil in London
2025 - The National Gallery 200th Anniversary - Group Show - Vaults of the National Gallery - London
2024 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Niterói - "Oh, I Love Brazilian Women!" - Rio de Janeiro
2023 - CCSP - Centre for Contemporary Art - "Oh, I Love Brazilian Women!" - São Paulo
2021 - Apexart - "Oh, I Love Brazilian Women!" - New York
2020 - Tate Modern - Screen display for the opening of Dora Maar's Exhibition - London
2014 - Saatchi Gallery + Fritz Hansen Design at The Hyatt Hotel - London
2013 - National Library of France - Paris
2012 - NordArt Contemporary Art Fair - Hamburg
2012 - MIS - Museu de Imagem e Som - Group Exhibition - São Paulo
2012 - Somerset House - London Fashion Week - London
2010 - Palais de Chaiilot - Prix de la Jeune Creation - Paris, France
Short Films Display
2023 - PaperHeads - The Package Animation - Curzon Mayfair Cinema - London
2023 - PaperHeads - The Package Animation - Piccadilly Circus Spotlights Screen - London
Honours & Awards
2023 Big Syn International Film Festival Awards (United Nations) - London UK
2020 Screen display selection - Tate Modern - London UK
2013 International Fine Art Photography Awards
2012 LICC London International Creative Competition
2011 Made Design Artist Awards
2010 LPA London Photographic Association
2010 Sony World Photography Awards
2010 Prix de la Jeune Création Métiers d’Art - Winner - Photography - Paris, France
Selected Collections
The Macallan
Hiscox Art Collection
European Union Office, Brussels, Belgium
UBS Bank
Hyatt Group
National Library of France - Paris, France
Bibliography
Selected Publications
The Art Newspaper
Vogue
The Culture Edit by Vogue
Financial Times
How to Spend it
Smithsonian
The Glass Magazine
Widewalls
ArtRabbit
London Fashion Week
Saatchi Magazine
Art for Your World by WWF