Julie McCarthy is a fine art photographer. She is largely self-taught. She has taken classes at Maine Media Workshops, the International Center for Photography in New York and the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
Her work has been shown throughout New England and beyond. Her solo shows include The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts (2016) and Chesterwood in Stockbridge, Massachusetts (2014).
She photographed the Shankill Road in Belfast for five years. She worked with an analogue Canon camera and black-and-white film. The book The Shankill: A Portrait of Pride and Resilience (Daylight Books, 2025) collects 50 of these photographs.
