Julian Chatelin • Mack Avenue, Eastside, Detroit, 2013

Todd Weinstein • Crows on Four, Three, and Two, NYC, 1979

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Julien Chatelin explores territories in transition where there unfolds a struggle between man and its environment, between cities and nature. The places he chooses to photograph are charged with opposite energies, carrying a profound ambivalence, suggesting at the same time fecundity and sterility, a promise and nothingness.

Born in France in 1968 as a dual French-American citizen, Julien Chatelin began his photographic career as a photojournalist in the early 90s, while producing long-term documentary projects such as Israel Borderline which was published in a 160 page monograph in 2008.

Chatelin is a NYU TISCH alumni and a former member of Rapho photo agency.

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On Influence:

Being an artist is about absorbing influences, and selecting what is meaning for your own practice.

I think influence is interesting when we start to forget where it came from, while still being able to acknowledge it.