Juliet Haas
Sacramento, California
My work evokes a feeling of desolation. Things left behind, abandoned, dropped, silent. I am drawn to solitude and detritus, shape, light and darkness, dramatic weather and emotion. I don't always know why I pick up the camera, but I have backtracked miles to return to a structure with sheer obsession to experience its energy. Often times it is a fear and the challenge is to find the courage to enter. Sometimes it is solely for the need to feel creative. I circle a subject until I capture the beauty in its ugliness."
Juliet has worked in and around the Photographic and Entertainment Industries since 1993. She began as a volunteer teaching photography and darkroom to at risk youth ages 6 to 18 with the original Venice Arts Mecca and went on to work as a black and white proof printer with four professional Hollywood film processing labs. When the industry went digital and she found herself without a profession she branched out into other areas of the entertainment industry acquiring many unique skills including loading 35mm Arriflex Motion Picture magazines on Commercial and Short Films, booking the occasional set-stills gig on student films and working as a Production Coordinator at a dynamic Commercial Boutique.
Unable to shake the yearning to create images, Juliet finally picked up a digital DSLR and over the course of a two week road trip Summer 2005 the future was set. Honing her skills in wedding photography, headshot photography and portraiture she finally found a home in the fine art photography community in Los Angeles. Newly married and now a full-time resident of Sacramento, CA, Juliet continues to collaborate with other artists creating portrait projects, producing photo-based artist screening events with Open Show Sacramento and in March of 2017 she founded the fine art critique group PHOTO-Sacto.
