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Julia Rendleman grew up in southern Illinois. She graduated with a degree in political science from Loyola University New Orleans in 2002 and lived in New Orleans until 2004. For four years she worked as a wedding photographer in Chicago before receiving a masters degree in photojournalism from Southern Illinois University in December 2010.

Julia has worked on many photo stories about everyday life in the Midwest and Louisiana. In 2010, she won a Getty Images Student Grant for Editorial Photography for a story about five incarcerated women at a military-style prison boot camp. Other awards include first and second place for multimedia work from the Illinois Press Photographers Association in 2009. She currently works as a staff photographer at the Houma Courier, a New York Times Company paper, in Louisiana.