Workshop
An intimate city with Julien Magre
To 29 June
“Julien Magre’s work is part of a biographical journey, and his photographs […] capture the tenderness of time as it passes over loved ones. The intimacy shown is never simple, since the photographer takes great care not to reveal every detail of his life, thus transfiguring everyday banality,” writes Héloïse Conésa, curator at the BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France) about Julien’s work.
UNE VILLE INTIME
Writing & Photography: two inseparable elements
Drawing on this rich experience, participants will be asked to produce a series of intimate photographs of the city of Niort. They will also be asked to produce a short text presenting the series.
The aim of this workshop is to produce images, edit them, and find the right order and rhythm to create a coherent narrative. Technical issues will be kept to a minimum, leaving the analysis and choice of images to the fore.
Discover his exhibition En vie at La Villa Pérochon from June 28 to September 27 (opening June 27 at 6.30pm).
Practical info
Course
Saturday June 28th
Morning
Julien will look at each participant’s photographs or series and choose a series with them to produce on Saturday afternoon.
Afternoon
Participants will begin their project.
Then first meetings with images in the early evening.
Sunday, June 28
Morning
Julien will present his Niépce prize file and then look at each participant’s production.
If necessary, each participant will go back into the field to make or finalize the series.
Then editing at the end of the morning.
16h
Presentation of each person’s work to the group and debriefing.
Julien Magre
Julien Magre was born in 1973. At Paris Photo 2010, Agnès B. spotted his work when she signed Caroline, Histoire numéro deux (Filigranes). Speaking of this project, which he has now been carrying out for over twenty years, the photographer describes himself as a “spectator of his own intimacy”: choosing the right distance from his subject, neither too far nor too close, he documents his everyday life, and thereby renders it poetic.
In 2014, he was part of the BAL group show, S’il y a lieu, je pars avec vous with S. Calle, A. d’Agata, A. Bublex and S. Couturier. He published the book Je n’ai plus peur du noir in 2016 (Filigranes). From then on, black and white appeared in his photographic practice. In March 2017, he joins Le Réverbère gallery in Lyon. There, he presents Elles, a corpus of 350 images taken between 1999 and 2017, based on his work on his family.
In 2022, he wins the Prix Niépce and is part of the major photographic commission “Radioscopie de la France”.
