synopsis
Cross the garden and climb over the fence.
Down in the tall grass to the end of the meadow, enter the wood.
It is here that begins l'aval.
Few kilometers away through the forest, open glades, a path that does not exist in alternating of gentle and steep slopes. Always down to surprise the river, the tip of my downstream, the end of the trip.
L'aval leads to an upstream - upstream of a dam - beyond this point many other downstreams but I will stop here. Every time I cut the landscape into many small frames. These frames, here they are.
Down in the tall grass to the end of the meadow, enter the wood.
It is here that begins l'aval.
Few kilometers away through the forest, open glades, a path that does not exist in alternating of gentle and steep slopes. Always down to surprise the river, the tip of my downstream, the end of the trip.
L'aval leads to an upstream - upstream of a dam - beyond this point many other downstreams but I will stop here. Every time I cut the landscape into many small frames. These frames, here they are.
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technical information
Publisher : Origini Edizioni
2024
96 pages, four colors and b/w
Languages: French and English
250 copies numbered and signed
2024
96 pages, four colors and b/w
Languages: French and English
250 copies numbered and signed
about Julien Coquentin
by the author
Between 2012 and 2023, I published five books with Lamaindonne publishing, which combined my appetite for documentary and an attention paid to my loved ones and my immediate environment. In 2013, an urban wandering in the streets of Montreal: Early on a Sunday Morning. In 2014, Eight Days in New York and in 2016, Black Seasons, in which I explore the ties that hold us to our native land - a series notably exhibited at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in La-Roche-sur-Yon (2016), at Imagesingulières in Sète (2017) and during the Photographic Summer of Lectoure (2019). In 2020 I published Tropiques, a fiction, mixing photographs and several short stories in the manner of a tale, exhibited during the Lectoure Photographic Summer (2021) and finally Oreille coupée (2023), a work constructed in the form of an ecological and sociological investigation on the traces of the wolf in the Massif Central; a work that is fortunate to benefit from a cycle of exhibitions (2023-2025) in the Diagonal network (Carré d'Art gallery in Chartres-de-Bretagne, La Chambre in Strasbourg and Le Centre Claude Cahun in Nantes). This same series will benefit from an exciting media broadcast with a portfolio published in M et Zadig and an invitation to the microphone of Marie Richeux, on France Culture, during the program "Par les temps qui courent". In 2023, Mat Jacob and Monica Santos are offering me a writing residency at Zone I in Loir-et-Cher, with the design of a novel, Gast, co-published by Filigranes/Zone i. Also in 2024, I will publish a book entitled L’Aval with Origini edizioni, in which I will once again mix words with photography in a very restricted area of my geography, bringing together themes that are dear to me, particularly those of the forest and childhood.
Apart from my long series, a member of the Hans Lucas collaborative platform since 2017, I regularly work with the French press as well as in artistic mediation with the Prodiges association, particularly in remand centers, nursing homes, GEMs and colleges.
Apart from my long series, a member of the Hans Lucas collaborative platform since 2017, I regularly work with the French press as well as in artistic mediation with the Prodiges association, particularly in remand centers, nursing homes, GEMs and colleges.
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Publisher : Origini Edizioni
2024 (1st edition)
96 pages, four colors and b/w
Languages: French and English
250 copies numbered and signed
2024 (1st edition)
96 pages, four colors and b/w
Languages: French and English
250 copies numbered and signed