Julie Platner is a documentary artist and filmmaker currently living in Los Angeles, CA. Working with both analog and digital media, she draws from cinéma vérité, personal nonfiction, and experimental film traditions. She is particularly fascinated with American society’s reverence for “rugged” bootstrap individualism and its intersection with white supremacy. She is interested in subverting deeply imbedded narratives.

Platner's photography is in collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and she has been a visiting artist at UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism, and a guest lecturer at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies. A member of the International Cinematographers’ Guild (Local 600), she has worked on HBO Television and Film productions as an art department video and stills photographer. Platner holds a BA in Communication Studies from Northeastern University and an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University where she was awarded the David and Elizabeth Roderick Scholarship.

Awards / National Public Radio Fellowship, Photo District News, Communication Arts, POYI, among others.

Publications / The New York Times, D La Rebubblica, M le Magazine du Monde, GQ, Stern, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CBS '60 Minutes', Al Jazeera Magazine, Photo District News,  Chronogram, Neue Energi, CNN Headline News, ABC World News, Interviú, Deutsche Post

Lectures & Panel Discussions / Rand Corporation, The Foreign Policy Association, the National Press Photographers Association, and NYU for the International Center of Photography and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, a symposium on Committed Photojournalism.