Joelle Andreana St. Julien or Indi (b. 1996, North Miami Beach, FL) is a full-time professional photographer based in Southwest Florida. In May 2021, She graduated with her BFA in Photography with a minor in Business from Ringling College of Art & Design. Joelle’s work uses a documentary approach to focus on the complex issues and unjust discrimination Black people face today. Her work focuses not only on the afflictions of Black People but also the beauty of Blackness through photographs. Her work is driven by the senseless deaths of people of color, the stigmas surrounding Black Males and their mental health, and cultural negligence Black Women experience. Joelle stages cinematic scenes portraying urban Black Men and Women against vivid and saturated colors that represent their ancestry. Her photographs feel seeming familiar but offer the viewer a sense of reality.
"Our skin colour, our body, and our mere presence make others uncomfortable because we don’t conform to white supremacist ideals of the patriarchy."
–Solange
Education
2017-2021: Ringling College of Art & Design
Exhibitions
2022: Trap Heals, Florida Gulf Coast University| Fort Myers, FL
2022: Visions in Black, Art Center Sarasota| Sarasota, FL
2021: Road Map to Joy| Philadelphia, PA
2021: Senior Thesis Exhibition: Love & Kinship, Lois + David Stulburg Gallery| Sarasota, FL
2020: Annual Photography & Imaging Show, Diane Roskamp Exhibition Hall| Sarasota, FL
2020: P&I Pop Up Exhibition, Lois and David Stulberg Gallery| Sarasota, FL
2020: Beyond Measure, Deborah M. Cooley Photography Gallery| Sarasota, FL
2020: Adulting, Urbanite Theatre| Sarasota, FL
2019: Mis En Scene, Deborah M. Cooley Photography Gallery| Sarasota, FL
2019: Annual Photography & Imaging Show, Diane Roskamp Exhibition Hall| Sarasota, FL
2019: 18th Annual Women’s Exhibition, Robert Perkins Student Life Wing Gallery| Sarasota, FL
2019: Chroma, Deborah Cooley Photography Centre| Sarasota, FL
2018: Annual Photography & Imaging Show, Diane Roskamp Exhibition Hall| Sarasota, FL
Online Exhibitions
2020: Tunnel of Oppression| Online Exhibition
2020: Best of Ringling| Online Exhibition
2020: Earth Mother/Mother Earth| Online Exhibition
Lectures & Talks
2021: Love & Kinship Senior Thesis, Ringling College of Art & Design
2020: Professional Projects: People of New Town, Ringling College of Art & Design
Publications
2022: Sarasota Magazine, "Mother Nature"
2020-2021: Format Portfolio Spotlight
Awards
2022: Visions in Black Honorable Mention Award
2021: Best of Ringling Gold Juror's Award
2021: Bob Cohn & Sue Gutterman Fund
2020: Best of Ringling Bronze Juror's Award
2020: Best of Ringling Faculty Award for Best Concept