A French artist documenting weddings and families across
Puerto Vallarta, Punta Mita, Sayulita and all over Mexico since 2006.
My name is Julien. I'm a French artist, and I came to Mexico in 2006 — charmed by its people, its light, and this stretch of coast I like to call paradise. I stayed, and today I'm a happy husband raising two daughters here with my wife.
I studied architecture in Paris, but my heart always belonged to other arts — writing, painting, sculpture. I've always loved to use my hands and my mind to make things that make us feel and think. Then I discovered photography, and I never looked back. I have all of those elements at my disposal now — architecture, painting, sculpture, writing — and I bring them together to capture the sentiment, the joy and the passion of a moment. That is what makes a picture mine. I'm a perfectionist, and I find perfection in imperfection \u2014 I take the constraints of a scene and turn them into something that works.
"I try to stay invisible and let the day flow naturally — that's when the true emotions come."
My focus is to document your wedding and to capture your family, your friends, or simply the two of you in a natural and beautiful way. I stay invisible and let the day flow — I never direct you, and I never ask you to repeat a moment that has already passed. What I'm looking for is real: the light, the laughter, the atmosphere, the emotion between people.
And then there is one moment in the day that belongs only to the two of you — usually as the sun goes down. We step away from everyone for a little while. No stiff posing: just an unhurried moment of love and light, the way you'd sit together at the end of a perfect day. This is the photograph you'll want on your living-room wall, and it's the one I never rush.
Spots a happy tear at 100 meters. Part invisible ninja, part fine artist — always behind these lens-oculars.
If it moves, she's already filming it — vows, first dances and dance-floor chaos, all in cinema quality.
Catches every “I do”, every toast and every laugh — yes, even that one joke from your uncle.
Your love story from the sky — palm trees, ocean and the two of you, as the frigatebirds see it.
Story-telling is the art of being unnoticed — to capture true emotions.
Named by the Wedding Photographer Society since 2018 — and recognized by the field's leading international institutions.
Julien's work has been published in Vogue and National Geographic, and seen on television in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in Punta Mita — photographing celebrities such as Lorena Ochoa, the Jack Link's family and Leslie Jordan.