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Julien Gidoin’s work exists at the intersection of documentary cinema and photography. Having worked for many years as a cinematographer, he has developed a particular attention to time, distance, and the posture of looking. For him, photography is not a spectacular gesture, but a moment of pause, often taken on the margins of a shoot, when the camera is set down. His images emerge from duration and repetition. He photographs situations he knows, faces encountered and encountered again, favouring a discreet presence and relationships built over time. This approach results in restrained images, mostly in black and white, where the framing remains stable and avoids any form of dramatisation.
At the core of his work lie questions of visibility, abandonment, and collective responsibility, particularly through series produced in public spaces, alongside people living on the streets or at the margins of institutions. Without seeking to explain or to save, Julien Gidoin claims photography as an act of resistance to indifference — a way of remaining present in the face of what persists, even as social and public structures unravel. Photography thus becomes a tool to transform a quiet, deep anger in the face of social inequalities into a concrete gesture: to walk, to meet, to look, and to give time to those who are no longer seen.
