Julien Dumas

Julien Dumas is a narrator. Each of his stories, sorry… of his photographs, is a news item, a slice of life in which he lets us enter by giving us the freedom to be a bit of the screenwriter. The whole question is to know if a slice of life will take place before our eyes, or if the dramatic twist that we suspect has already been triggered, leaving Julien's actresses pensive, overwhelmed and overwhelmed ... Are we witnesses of the decisive moment or is it at the origin of the revealed image? The confrontation? ... A dive into each image in order to grasp the clues ... and the secret plot. “Aesthetics of waiting, capture of the decisive moment, cinematographic framing… dispersion of images in the 21st century - Facebook? IPhone photo? To post ? Computer screenshot? Julien Dumas disturbs the status of the photographic image. The staging choreographed for the eye armed with a viewfinder, the colors reworked in the print, the subtle refinement of the architectures, everything is calculated to create a unique and sovereign image… ”