Julien Drach (b. 1973) is a French photographer, filmmaker and Art Director. His photography, which is at once painterly and cinematic, sets a richly layered scene, inviting us into the story.
“In my photos, I blend two major sources of inspiration: painting and film, but it is an unconscious creative process. I’m constantly searching for poetry and aesthetics. It’s fundamental. Each era has a need for poetry. By mixing painting and cinema, I’m trying to erase the notion of time and place. It could be any time. I love when you lose the sense of time…” – Julien Drach (quoted in The London List, 2022)
“… Julien Drach presents compositions close to Italian realist cinema: “I like to walk through these cities, take their pulse, capture their spirit. They inspired me with these still moments in a world that is fleeing”. And it is because we are painfully aware of the “never again” that weighs on these Mediterranean cultures condemned to “modernize”, and therefore to disappear, that we enter into the silence of the non-reassuring images of this “insomniac photographer”, who takes us off the conventional paths of contemporary photography” – Serge Rezvani in MEP, 2014
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The London List (05-13-2022)
A Painterly Touch
Interview with by Ben Weaver
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French photographer Julien Drach (b. 1973), whose series ROMA, recently exhibited at Sotheby’s London, captures perfectly the grandeur, decay and idiosyncrasy of the Eternal City, about his life, work and why a childhood trip on the Orient Express still means so much to him…
Alexandre Biaggi (02-24-2023):
Exposition DIALOGUE : Julien Drach x Patrice Dangel
The Socialite Family (10-23-2023):
Home-Tour: at Ronit Pardo & Julien Drach
Image at Top: The Two Men, Mogador, Morocco © 2014 Julien Drach. This photograph is part of a series inspired by Italian neorealism entitled “from Naples to Mogador” and was presented in 2014 by the European House of Photography in Paris during Photo Month.
