synopsis
With this new work, Tropiques, Julien Coquentin explores even further his favorite themes of childhood, family, territory and otherness.
It was after a trip to Reunion Island that he developed his new series. Having left to work there as a nurse, with his wife and three children, he spent 2 years taking photos and writing texts, considering that photographing and writing are two sides of the same creation.
As he said in an interview: “I believe that my writing resembles my photography and that it is therefore possible to confuse them. » This is also the editorial interest of this work: giving the same role to the texts (5 short stories, like stories) and to the images, without one being an illustration of the other. Texts and photographs will therefore be the two actors in the same story, each with their own particularities, thus making it possible to say what cannot be imaged and to image what cannot be said.
Julien Coquentin lets vibrate, in images where half of the island is almost palpable, the themes of the relationship between man and nature, of the intimacy of the family taken in a new territory, of the difference of the another culture...
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 : Lamaindonne
2024 (1st edition)
196 pages, 90 color photos
dimensions : 18 x 24 cm
signed copy
2024 (1st edition)
196 pages, 90 color photos
dimensions : 18 x 24 cm
signed copy