About
Julie Legrand
I photograph the small, honest details that reveal a place or a person.
Julie Legrand, originally from Lille and based in Biarritz since 2021, I have been a photographer for over ten years. I now work exclusively with expired film, and immerse the rolls in water drawn directly from the ocean at the time of development. This poetic gesture is a way of inviting the landscape itself to speak, so that a trace of immensity remains in every photograph. Behind the account @letowave, I build my cinematic imagery between melancholy and poetry, where every imperfection is a crack through which the light enters.
Short film screenings: "De Passage": Festival Un Court Tournable (Paris, 27/05/22) — Festival Si la Terre Tourne (Tours, 3–4/09/22) "Backwash": Exhibition "Les Vents, les Astres & la Mer" (Biarritz, 04/23–05/23) — Youality Film Festival (Chantilly, 25/11/23) Photo exhibitions: N°4 Coffee Station, Caracoli & Akeita (Biarritz, 22/23), Hopi (Lille, 09–12/25), Négatif Plus (Paris, 12/25) Photography book "Fréquence ;", released Jan. 2024, self-published in 100 copies. Sold out. Winner of the Travelfest photography festival contest, 2024 Press features: Paula Magazine n°3 + Fisheye (2024) — Sel d'argent + Trame(s) (2026) Featured in "Le regard cinéma" by Gildas Lepetit-Castel, 2024