Exhibition: In Life
The Jeu de Paume exhibition in Tours presents "Alive", a corpus of 50 prints, through which Julien Magre - winner of the 2022 Niépce Prize - documents his daily life from 1999 to 2020. Behind his lens, he immortalizes family scenes: the portraits of his partner in the early days of their relationship, the photographs of his two daughters, until one of them dies, then the images of his son, the last born.
Born in 1973, Julien Magre lives and works in Paris. A graduate of the Arts Décoratifs de Paris in 2000, his work has been represented by the Galerie Le Réverbère in Lyon since 2017. In Paris Photo in 2010, Agnès b. locates her work during the signing of Caroline, History number two (Filigranes, 2010). Speaking of this project that he has been working on for fifteen years now, the photographer calls himself a «spectator of [his] own intimacy»: choosing the right distance with his subject, neither too far, nor too close, he documents his daily life and thus makes it poetic. In 2022, he was one of the winners of “La grande commande photographique du ministère de la Culture” initiated by the BnF.