artist/ Guinand

France

Julien Guinand is an artist and photographer, born in 1975. He lives and works in Lyon.

Julien Guinand’s photographic work is both documentary and experimental. He works mainly in the field, in places where social and environmental history is played out, focusing mainly on spaces and landscapes. His favourite themes are catastrophe and collapse, and the subsumption of nature. He pays particular pictorial attention to the subjects he documents, working within a tension between document and image-object.

Julien Guinand studied literature, music and visual arts, and is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles. He was a resident at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 2017, winner of a national commission from Cnap (Regards du Grand Paris), and received support from the Fondation des artistes for a project in Japan.

His work has been the subject of two monographic publications by Éditions 205. Two Mountains, his latest book, was published by Hatje Cantz in April 2021. Julien Guinand is also co-founder of the Bloo photography school, which he directed from 2009 to 2018. He has taught at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (ENSBAL) since 2005.