Juliana Sohn
 
 

Real people. Real communities. Real stories.

 
 

 

The Work

Twelve

Photo essay documenting the lives of twelve year old girls coming of age in New York City.

 

K-Pod for KoreanAmericanStory.org

I am co-Founder, co-Host and producer of K-Pod, the podcast that features Koreans in arts and culture. We follow in Korean American Story’s mission of creating and preserving the stories of the Korean American experience.

 

City Artist Corp Grant

Grant recipient. Documented New Yorkers during the summer of 2021 in the city parks, coming out and connecting, after more than a year of the pandemic.

 

Capitalism Under Lockdown

Summer 2020. Fifth Avenue, New York City’s luxury retail district, boarded up and silenced.

 

Our young girls are bearing the burden of climate action. But should they be? for Quartz

The Climate Movement is diverse and female-led. I wrote and photographed this story.

 

Korean Funerary Portraits seen in The New York TImes

Among Koreans, Giving
Death Your Best Face.

 

Boys With Long Hair

A portrait series on boys who wear their hair long and challenge social conventions.

 

Sleep, published in Time magazine

Mothering and photography. Documenting my boys grow up while they sleep.

 

LinkedIn

Real Faces of Sales, connections between buyers and sellers.

 

Seeding Sovereignty

An Indigenous womxn-led collective working globally to shift social and environmental paradigms by dismantling colonial institutions and replacing them with Indigenous practices.

 

Bringing Up Robot Baby for New York Times

Students around the country take home the infant simulators, with little evidence that they reduce pregnancy.

 

Scratch Foundation

Scratch is a block-based visual programming language and online community targeted primarily at children.

 

Focal by North

Wearable tech company on the forefront of Ai opens their North American flagship store in Brooklyn, New York.

 

Aesop

Aesop is a luxury skincare brand that incorporates science and botanical ingredients to make remarkable beauty products.

 

Glossier

Glossier is a new approach to beauty. It’s about fun and freedom and being OK with yourself today.

 

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

The Broad Institute is empowering a revolution in biomedicine to accelerate the pace at which the world conquers disease. A mission driven community that brings together medicine, biology, chemistry, computation, engineering and mathematics.

 

Zero Waste with Open House New York

A survey of waste management systems employed by New York City to reach their Zero by Thirty initiative to send 0% of their municipal waste to landfills by 2030

 

New York Times: Truth Is Local

The Times campaign to highlight their journalism in the five boroughs — “The Truth Is Local.” At the heart of the campaign are five innovative storefront installations, one in each borough, that you can visit.

 

A Garden Runs Delightfully Amok for T The New York Times Style Magazine

At their weekend home on the outer edge of Long Island, the designers behind the firm Roman and Williams let nature lead.

 

The Perfect Saturday in New York: Hop On The Ferry for Wall Street Journal

Thanks to the city’s expanded ferry service, you can jump breezily from borough to borough by boat.

 

Brearley

The Brearley School is an all-girls private school in New York City, located on the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan.

 

Maskivism = Mask Activism

Advocating for mask making, sharing, and wearing. Promoting health, reuse, and caring for our community. Profiled in dwell magazine and Huffington Post.

 

Amazon for Hewlett Packard

Amazon processing warehouse in Reno, Nevada.

 

Pilobolus

Acclaimed dance theater organization committed to creating collaboratively and finding beauty in unexpected places.

 

The Things That Carried Him for Esquire

The award-winning true story behind one soldier's last trip home.

 

Jill Platner

Jewelry designer and sculptor Jill Platner creates organically inspired, hand crafted, silver and gold pieces in her New York city studio.

 

The High Cost Of Doing Day Care for Topic Magazine

Childcare fees are a major burden for new parents—but the situation isn’t much easier for the people taking care of their kids.

 

Mendham, New Jersey seen in August Journal

Teen age girls growing up in suburban New Jersey.