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Julia Briend

photographer

About

Born in 1980, lives in Nantes (France).

Portfolio on demand

A graduate of ENS Louis Lumière (Paris, 2003), I first worked as a retoucher, artist’s assistant, and graphic designer, before committing myself entirely to photography in 2021.

My work explores how power operates in social spaces, questioning how it shapes our bodies, identities, and beliefs. My photographs reveal life stories that defy social expectations.

I approach my projects as investigations, grounded in sociological, historical, and affective dimensions. In my recent work, I mobilise family archives — those that insist on finding their place in the present. I give form to these pasts that refuse to pass, welcoming them as presences that continue to act upon our thinking bodies.

I experiment with collaborative forms, both in my portrait practice and in my exchanges with audiences. 

EXhibitionS

2025
Les Photographiques (screening), Le Mans, France

2024
Les Nuits Photo (screening), Paris, France
« Sportives » Le voyage à Nantes
, Cale2Créateurs, Nantes, France
Lovely Autonomy, galerie Bøwie, Genève, Suisse

2023
Les Mercredis photographiques, Bordeaux, France
Les Nuits Photographiques de Pierrevert (screening), Pierrevert, France

Grants & awards

2026
Sel de pixel prize, GLAZ Festival, Rennes, France

2025
UPP price finalist
Selected for the Prix Mentor
, Nantes’ session, France

2024
Bourse d’aide à la création en arts visuels, Saint-Nazaire city, France
Aide Individuelle à la Création, DRAC Pays de la Loire

EDUCATION

2025
Mentorship Programme ENSP with Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo and SMITH, École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (Arles, France)

2003
Graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière (Noisy-le-Grand, France), in Photography – Image processing.

Workshops / Mediation

2025
Photographic residency Transitions, lycée agricole La Germinière (Le Mans, France), DRAC-DRAAF-FRAC

2023
Interventions in schools, BTS Audiovisual at the Léonard de Vinci high school, Montaigu (Vendée, France)


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