Photographed in a natural spring near her home, where frigid water flows out of a cave, Julie Blackmon's newly released photograph The Spring was inspired by the mystical setting — and by knowing the spring had been there for thousands of years.
Drawing on influences from Helen Levitt, Diane Arbus, and Sally Mann, Julie Blackmon has spent her career finding the strange and the resonant close to home. The Spring marks a quieter register than the meticulously staged, richly detailed scenes Blackmon is best known for, where humor, nostalgia, and subtle social critique play out across family and domestic life. But the same instinct runs underneath: an eye for the ordinary world around her and the layered, often theatrical narratives hidden inside it.
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