www.juliamasseystewart.com

Julia Massey Stewart
Partner | Managing Director | Teens Creative Director

• Magistra in Film, Theatre and Media Studies and Languages (MA equivalent), University of Vienna; FRGS – Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, FLS – Fellow of the Linnean Society
• Currently studying approx. one year self-paced Soil Health and Compost science practical incl. microscopy skills with the Soil Food Web school.

Julia’s fascination in nature started at a young age and she has developed this interest in varying chapters, most recently training in soil health and compost expertise backed by science with microscopy skills. Her philosophy: the land, market gardens and farmers and all of us need support to get back to what nature has done expertly for millennia, and this helps on a massive scale to tackle climate change.

Her Mango Lab photography and multi-media courses – Wildlife Photography, Macro Photography, Time Lapse Photography and Film, to name a few – enthuse her students with new perspectives of the world around us. Her filming of a 3 month-10 African country odyssey as a one-woman film crew, living off a truck, camping, and managing backups and multiple challenges, documenting people, wildlife and adrenaline activities (some of which she undertook herself, including skydiving over the Namib Desert!) also adds to the experience and knowledge she brings to her students.

Her photography initially became second nature as she documented living in a village school in rural India, teaching Art and English, and travelling across the country. Her skill at languages has given her access to people and their wide-ranging cultures, from learning to fish in frozen lakes of the Siberian winter to studying Kiswahili grammar in the heat of Kenya & Tanzania. She has produced images for editorial use, appearing in magazines, on CD covers and in encyclopaedias, and at exhibitions.

Working in a design agency as photographer and accounts manager she photographed for and assisted in the production of prospectuses and annual reports for schools such as Wycombe Abbey, Woldingham, Francis Holland and City of London, as well as creative designs for commercial property marketing.

Teaching is a key part of her life wherever she calls home, inspiring adults and children in photography and languages, art and music. She has also successfully facilitated the use of photography and writing as a means to healing on workshops for people affected by trauma.

Her strong musical background has led her to sound recording, including underwater and the sounds of whales, fish and more recently worms busy composting! Julia combines her teaching with her own study of natural science and film.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, serves on the London Regional Committee, and is also a Fellow of the Linnean Society – both societies key to her passion for travel, the world, people and nature.

Watch Julia’s timelapse of a bean growing! Did you know plants move so much?!