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Julien Chatelin
Prize winner 2013
“It was while driving along the roads of Egypt, far from Tahrir Square, that the meaning of the revolution became clearer to me. Leaving Cairo on the other side of the ring road, far from the city center, you gradually become immersed in a strangely immobile world, as if struck by lightning in mid-air, where the megalomaniac projects of developers seem to have come to a screeching halt. Abandoned territories, still inhabited by a few frozen individuals, as if waiting endlessly, looking haggard. The unfinished buildings punctuating the desert landscape give an impression of defeat and absurdity. A door planted in the middle of the desert, a forest of lampposts, cardboard buildings... We move abruptly from nothing to the strange, and a tension arises between objects, individuals and their context. Egyptorama is a road trip to nowhere. 8000 kilometers of road, a decentering out of time, in a setting that hesitates between the kitsch aesthetics of the Peplum and an end-of-the-world atmosphere”.
Born on July 4, 1968, Julien Chatelin became a freelance photographer in 1992. He began his career as a reporter, covering both social news in France and major events around the world. He was particularly interested in the changes that shook the new Caucasian republics following the collapse of the USSR. He then moved on to numerous conflict zones in the Balkans, Central Asia and the Middle East, focusing his attention on the fate of stateless nations. His work on Tibet, “Lhasa, the Lost Soul of Tibet”, was particularly acclaimed, and was the subject of an exhibition at the Soros Foundation in New York in 2005. For the next three years, he devoted himself to creating a fresco of Israeli society: “Israël Borderline”. This work was exhibited in Cannes in July 2008 at the Espace Miramar, and an eponymous 160-page monograph was published for the occasion by Editions Images en Manœuvre. A member of the Rapho agency until 2009, Julien Chatelin is also co-founder of the magazine “de l'air”, dedicated to the presentation of all forms of photographic writing.