Julien is a photographer and writer who never works too far from salty waters. Born in 1979, he grew up in Saint-Malo, France. After studying applied arts, he learned to be a chef and travelled with the seasons, which led him to become a photographer. From 2009 to 2012, he sailed around the world as a chef on the scientific schooner TARA. On board, he quickly became the "cuistographer", taking many of the photographs that made up his first major exhibition, "TARA OCEANS, A unique marathon" in Paris, Dublin, Monaco, St Malo and Roscoff. After TARA, irresistibly drawn to the islands, he moved to French Polynesia. From 2012 to 2016, with local friends from the Fakarava atoll, they imagine to revive the vanished tradition of sailing pirogues in the Tuamotu archipelago through an educational and social project : Va'a Motu. After 4 years of documenting the Tuamotu, Julien Set sail for the Gambier Archipelago before settling in the Marquesas, the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world. He first travelled there sailing a catamaran for 6 months on assignment for GEO France. Since 2016, he has been documenting the lives of the local horsemen fighting to save their tradition. "The Last Horsemen of The Marquesas" is an ongoing personal project that has been published in numerous media, including National Geographic and GEO. Julien also co-directed a documentary about this story for France Télévision. Julien aim to complete this extensive work by editing a book. After ten years in the Pacific, Julien recently returned to his Breton roots. He embarks on new projects, notably with Benjamin Flao, artist and comic book author. Together they produce a series of original stories in England, France and at Burning Man, combining photography and illustration. Since 2022, Julien is involved with a new Swiss Project, FOREL Heritage, a research platform exploring the polar regions in the service of science. In 2024, they sailed to Greenland for a first season. This year, Julien will sail again with FOREL in Quebec and Greenland.