Screenshot
BEHIND THE PAGE: PRESERVING FAMILY MEMORIES WITH JULIEN JAMES
December 11, 2025
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
In Collaboration With
LORE Leimert Park
Memory, communication, and storytelling lay at the heart of archival practices. Julien James weaves these elements together in his introspective photobook, I Love You Always, All Ways. Join us for an evening of legacy, archival practice, and storytelling through photographs with James as we dive into his book and work.
This program is presented by Art + Practice and LORE Leimert Park as part of the Behind the Page program series.
I Love You Always, All Ways is a tender, introspective photobook about fatherhood, legacy, and becoming. Told in three acts and framed by handwritten letters from father to son, the book offers a layered meditation on time, memory, and the quiet inheritances we carry. Shot over several years, it weaves together portraits, still lifes, ephemera, and fragments of family life to explore the liminal space between being a son and becoming a father.
The structure moves like a film—part bildungsroman, part memoir, part love letter. This isn’t a singular story, but rather a layered one, a nonlinear unfolding of joy, grief, softness, and survival. The power of the book lives in its restraint: the pauses, the glances, the everyday moments made sacred through attention. Old snapshots live alongside new ones. Time loops. Memory folds. And through it all, love stays—always, all ways.
Speakers
Julien James is a Los Angeles-based photographer whose work examines identity, memory, and the intimate architecture of family. His photobook I Love You Always, All Ways weaves together three generations of fatherhood through family photographs, handwritten letters, and his son’s drawings—an exploration of how we archive love across time.
His practice moves fluidly between commercial work for Apple, Verizon, and Airbnb (earning two Golden Cubes at the 101st ADC Awards) and personal documentary projects like Saint of the Sideline, which traces football culture across West Africa and the Caribbean. Whether working for global brands or creating deeply personal narratives, James’ images hold moments with an effortless intimacy—rooted in realism, distinguished by dramatic light and shadow, revealing the truth of human experience.
Other Programs in this Series
Fri
28
Nov
BEHIND THE PAGE: IN CONVERSATION WITH ARTHUR JAFA AND JUSTEN LEROY