INTERVIEW WITH JULIEN IOOS
Merge us in to you background; who are you and how did you start photography?
I’m born on june 3rd 1989 in Dunkerque, in north France. At the age of 12 I moved down to south of France and at it was at that moment that photography came in tom y life, a bit randomly. I took pictures randomly. When I got my driving licence I started to wander here and there. I loved it. I then bought a reflex, continued, more and more. Then with time it all became mature’ so to say. I started photographying people and made it a goal in my life, picturise the human. I’d like to start reporting. By the way, I am starting my very first soon.
Speaking of different picture genres, you seem at easy in the portrait domain. What catches your attention in it?
For me portrait is like a bared vision in a way. Intimate portrait really attracts me!
It is like a confession. It accentuates the look, the emotion, but it’s difficult because the person is really on the spot, you can almost or completely forget the environment around him.
It is like a confession. It accentuates the look, the emotion, but it’s difficult because the person is really on the spot, you can almost or completely forget the environment around him.
What about ‘naked’ picture have you tried that? Because it is also very expressive.
Yes, that’s true, but we easily tend to get to randomness ! I don’t feel like I am ready for that. For me, few are the photographers who manage to deliver a unique work around nakedness.
Are there any photographers that inspired you?
Yes, plenty ! The greatest as Robert Doisneau, Robert Capa, Nadar and others.
War photography has also influences my work a lot, mostly those made by James Nachtwey.
The power of that a war photography can express is amazing but also the influence that it can have on thousands of people who have never experienced war. It marks the history weather it is beautiful or completely ‘morbid’.
As photographers like James Nachtwey, who really have a specific message to deliver with the war, starvation and the impact that it has in the world; is there any message you try to deliver using photography?
I don’t think that there is a specific message I’d like to deliver directly to my viewers. But more give people a way to express themselves. All my pictures or almost are based on improvising. It is still for me a learning phase.
I don’t think that there is a specific message I’d like to deliver directly to my viewers. But more give people a way to express themselves. All my pictures or almost are based on improvising. It is still for me a learning phase.
Could you name a thing you learned through photography?
I have in for a long while been very solitary and I still am a bit. And the fact of going up to people was perhaps also for me a certain therapy to restore my confidence with humans.
I have in for a long while been very solitary and I still am a bit. And the fact of going up to people was perhaps also for me a certain therapy to restore my confidence with humans.
You say that photography makes you closer to people, are there any other motivations you would like to share?
Yes that’s very true! I think that motivation can also be seen in discovery, meeting new people as different as they can be. The unknown as well! It’s still blurry to me, just the fact of starting my first reporting, it’s really unknown to me, I like it but it is destabilizing. I still need a mature overlook regarding photography.
Yes that’s very true! I think that motivation can also be seen in discovery, meeting new people as different as they can be. The unknown as well! It’s still blurry to me, just the fact of starting my first reporting, it’s really unknown to me, I like it but it is destabilizing. I still need a mature overlook regarding photography.
The unknown is always scary, but once you are in it we always tend to find a comfortable ‘spot’ … That is very true, and hopefully I will find it!
Is there any picture you prefer among all the others?
Though choice!
This is one of my favorites. I wont be able to explain but for me it’s all there. It was the first picture of our meeting, the picture with the small settings, he wasn’t expecting for me to take a picture at that moment, it must be for that little unexpected reaction that I like it and it only him, his soul and the light. That bared image again.
This is one of my favorites. I wont be able to explain but for me it’s all there. It was the first picture of our meeting, the picture with the small settings, he wasn’t expecting for me to take a picture at that moment, it must be for that little unexpected reaction that I like it and it only him, his soul and the light. That bared image again.
What is your most proud moment until now?
Having taken the time to meet all these persons.
Having taken the time to meet all these persons.
Yes, people that surround us are very important to what we become. Is there any goal you would like to reach?
I’d like to help people, make them happier. I think and I assert, photography helps a lot! Moreover, psychology have begun to really take an interest about it lately.
I’d like to help people, make them happier. I think and I assert, photography helps a lot! Moreover, psychology have begun to really take an interest about it lately.
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