Julien Coquentin is a French photographer with a passion for photography since 2007. Julien likes to make long photo series, spread over months, years. This allows him to better comprehend the subject and to apprehend it over the years, discovering step by step what he wanted to say in the beginning. And then the long series reveals many more, smaller, more precise details, more specific in every case.
The project entitled “The dead zone” is an extension of a long series (“Black seasons”) he has been working on now for over two years. Because the French countryside contains so many memories of his life, he wanted to include his childhood reminiscences in this landscapes, that now are a dead zone and yet so invasive.
The cube does represents the child he was and his history, giving him the opportunity to give back to the past what belongs to the past. He naturally thought of a black cube, because it seemed to him that it would be the simplest form to make, and then it came to refer itself to the black box, the dark room.
He proceeded by trial and error, finally choosing a wooden architecture, with 1-meter sides, light and strong. He takes it with him in his wandering, following the footsteps of his childhood.
Images courtesy of Julien Coquentin
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