Julien Fumard
Primarily based in Provence, within the south of France, Julien is a photographer centered on nature and conventional life in harsh environments. After dwelling a love story with the arctic lights of northern Norway the place he settled down and found his ardour for images, he occurred to fall into the arms of the Himalayas. Since then, whether or not it’s panorama or documentary images, he has centered his consideration on distant and excessive altitude areas, within the Himalayas in addition to within the Alps.
Michéla Griffith
In 2012 I paused by my native river and all the things modified. I’ve moved away from what many anticipate images to be: my photos deconstruct the literal and reimagine the subjective, reflecting the curiosity that water has impressed in my observe. Water has been my conduit: it has sharpened my imaginative and prescient, given me permission to experiment and continues to introduce me to new methods of seeing.
For those who like your mountains massive and have ambitions for journey, learn on… We now have an interesting interview for you with French photographer Julien Fumard, who regardless of saying he’s not likely into bodily exercise hasn’t let this cease him from enterprise a sequence of expeditions to the Himalayas that many solely dream of. By staying with native households, he has skilled not solely distant landscapes but additionally village life in harsh environments, and we make no apology for the truth that the pictures on this function embrace each folks and place. All too usually our images separates the 2, and thru Julien’s eyes, we acquire an perception into what we would stand to study if we don’t.
Would you want to start out by telling readers a bit of about your self – the place you grew up, what your early pursuits have been, and what you went on to do?
My identify is Julien Fumard. I used to be born in Marseille, within the south of France 39 years in the past and lived there till my mid-twenties; I now reside in Meyrargues, about 50kms up north. Since my teenage years, I’ve been keen about music, particularly the arduous sort, the one which will get your head banging and offers you the power to beat something: steel. I even performed in a band as a guitarist for a number of years. That was THE factor for me! At the moment I had completely little interest in images, and it remained like that for fairly some time. I additionally had a rising curiosity in nature which was type of arduous to fulfil, dwelling in a giant metropolis like that. So I used to be very pissed off in that sense, however generally with pals, we might borrow my dad and mom’ automotive and drive to a close-by forest, make a giant bonfire – which was completely forbidden (and silly contemplating how dry the area is) – and partied the entire evening earlier than dropping asleep in baggage that have been barely heat sufficient. I cherished these brief moments within the wild. I suppose my dad and mom bringing me to the mountains was the explanation for my curiosity in nature. Once I was a baby I cherished watching forests the place creatures of myths and legends have been dwelling hidden from human sight.
I suppose my dad and mom bringing me to the mountains was the explanation for my curiosity in nature. Once I was a baby I cherished watching forests the place creatures of myths and legends have been dwelling hidden from human sight.
I nonetheless attempt to think about these creatures at this time, though with age and a extra Cartesian thoughts the magic tends to dissolve. However music, travelling and to a sure extent images by some means deliver me again to those childhood emotions of surprise and thriller.
Afterward, the lady I nonetheless reside with now pushed me to go on a visit to Scandinavia. She had been there together with her father as a child and effectively, Norway was the nation of black steel and trolls, in order that seemed like a extremely nice thought. We left with our automotive, a tent and a trunk stuffed with meals – and wine – and there we went up till the northern tip of Norway. Regardless of the hardships, this month lengthy journey was a revelation to me. I bear in mind utilizing my girlfriend’s pocket digital camera on a regular basis – it was really a present I’d simply made for her birthday. That’s once I began to get curious about images. It was not but a ardour however the travelling bug on the opposite finish had bitten me. I went to complete my research in Canada, then again to France the place we moved to totally different locations, then as much as Tromsø, Norway. My dream of dwelling in Norway had lastly been realised… solely to be crushed seven months later when the corporate I used to be working for as a software program developer shut its doorways. However at the moment a brand new ardour, images, had emerged because of the loopy lights of polar latitudes. The tip of a dream would grow to be the start of one other. I’d journey additional, longer, however this time with a objective: {photograph} the great world we reside in.
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