Julie Denesha
Julie Denesha is a freelance documentary photographer based in the Kansas City area.
Julie graduated from The University of Kansas in 1993, with degrees in Journalism and Russian Language and Literature. After college, she worked as a staff photographer for The Kansas City Star. In 1995, she moved to Europe and from 1996 to 2004, Julie was based in Prague, Czech Republic, where she covered Central and Eastern Europe for newspapers and magazines. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Time, Newsweek, The Economist and The Christian Science Monitor.
After moving back to the United States, Julie spent three years working as a photo editor for The Washington Times.
In 2007, Julie was awarded both a Fulbright and a Milena Jesenská Fellowship to continue her ongoing project on the Roma in Slovakia. Her project on the Roma was featured in an exhibit of the Roma at the U.S. Embassy in Bratislava, Slovakia, The World Bank in Brussels, Belgium, The Half King Gallery in New York, and The Institute For Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria.
View more of Julie's work on her website.
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In the turbulent years following the Civil War, around 27,000 former slaves migrated to Kansas. They called themselves "exodusters" and they were fleeing Jim Crow laws. Some of them are remembered in a portrait exhibition of an African-American community in Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Photos Hidden Away For Decades Provide An Intimate Portrait of Thomas Hart Benton At Work In His KanIn late 1955, a private club hired painter Thomas Hart Benton to create a small mural for its Kansas City meeting space. A photographer spent several months photographing Benton at work. Most of the negatives stayed out of sight -- until now.
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In one corner of the historic West Bottoms, an old industrial food processing warehouse is undergoing a revival. It’s being converted into artist studios where, even during a pandemic, artists are creating art. -
As the year 2020 comes to a close, several area artists and performers talk about the highlights and setbacks of creating and surviving during a pandemic. -
Artists deal with isolation during long stretches of time as a part of their regular practice. But for some, the forced isolation brought on by COVID-19 has gotten in the way of creativity. -
A local chainsaw sculptor usually spends a lot of time on the road traveling to national and international carving competitions. But coronavirus restrictions put those events on pause. So Steven Higgins put his talents to work closer to home. -
The Topeka Symphony Orchestra had big plans for its 75th anniversary season, but coronavirus interrupted. Still, the musicians are determined to perform. -
Little Stranger Church is the oldest wooden church in Kansas. It was shuttered at the height of the Spanish influenza pandemic in 1919. During COVID-19, work on the church accelerated and people are already asking about holding weddings there again. -
More than 40 languages are spoken in North Kansas City. The new mural on the wall of an immigration law firm reflects the global perspectives of students at North Kansas City High. -
Robert "Cowboy" Culbertson owns American Frontier Production, a set where artists can imagine life on the prairie as it once was.
