The Wildcrafting Our Queerness Project

Julie Rae Powers

Julie Rae Powers is a photographer and editor from West Virginia, currently working out of Brooklyn and previously working out of Columbus, Ohio. Frequently pulling from Appalachian, lesbian, and feminist traditions of photography, Powers has constructed a body of work that is fiercely personal and startlingly intimate. Meditations on queerness, religion, loss, memory, family, friendship, and the ephemerality of art all appear throughout their photographs. Through their evocative closeness, Powers uses their photographs to weave empathy and understanding between their experiences and the experiences of others. In addition to their artistic work, Powers is editing a collection of essays and images which works to queer the Appalachian photographic tradition. This anthology, published by University of Kentucky Press, is slated to appear in 2022. 

Powers' body of work is available on their website. 

Click the title of each piece to view the full image and listen, when available, to an audio recording of Julie Rae Powers describing their inspiration and process behind the work of art. 

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