Julien Malabry

Son of a military man, Julien Malabry embraces his photographic practice within the very particular framework of his 10-year commitment to the French army. Honing his eye and his sensitivity to light during his missions, the accuracy of his frontal framing seduced the Festival's selection committee.
Witness of a world that oscillates between modernity and tradition, his images are supported by a leitmotiv assumed, but fought, which states that "habit kills the look". His photography then becomes the flagrant reflection of a silenced abandonment: man ceases to consider the past as part of the present, his gaze loses interest in the elements of daily life. Julien Malabry questions and tries to reverse a particular relationship of man to the world. His photographs, regularly taken in medium format, are bathed in a white light that supports a real force of proposition, in the imposition of forms.