Staff

 

Julien Jourdes (Creative Producer), born in Toulouse, France, is a photo editor, photographer and painter. After earning his Baccalaureat, Julien moved to Paris to study cinema and photography at L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière, where he earned his degree as engineer in 1997. He then worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as exhibition and graphic designer at the French Cultural Center in Gabon, Africa. In 1999, Julien came to New York to study at the International Center of Photography (ICP). He has since worked at LIFE Magazine, then international photo editor at Newsweek, where for four years he covered such conflicts as the second Intifada, the fall of Milosevic, 9/11, and the war in Afghanistan. In 2003, Julien covered the war in Iraq as Editorial Director of Magnum Paris. His photos have been published in the NYTimes, Newsweek, and US News. As an artist, Julien has exhibited in New York at the International Center of Photography, Hogar Collection, Clemente Soto Velez, King Juan Carlos I Center, and New Jersey State Council on the Arts, among others. He is represented by Jonathan Shorr Gallery in New York City and Viota Gallery in Puerto Rico. Julien divides his time between his wife’s native Puerto Rico and New York. Julien is a founding member of Fovea.


Amrita Singh (Assistant Producer), is a senior at New School University, she is in a dual degree program concentrating in photography at Parsons The New School for Design and Media Studies at Eugene Lang College. She is currently working on her thesis project, "Playin' Mas" about Carnival Masqueraders in Trinidad and Tobago.



Rozenn Couturier (Urban Landscape Artist), is a New York – Paris based designer. She was born in Aveyron, France in 1978. At 21, she moved to the United States to study Interior Design and then Product Design at Parsons School of Design in New York City (class of 2005), where she principally concentrated on furniture and environmental (spatial) design. Since then, after obtaining her artist visa, she has been practicing as a freelance designer for architecture and design companies while exposing her own street installations throughout New York and collaborating on international exhibitions such as the 10th Architecture Biennale in Venice. These projects have been positively reviewed in several magazines including Time Out New York, Frame Magazine, and Revue Urbanisme.


Julien Valette (Composer), began his musical career studying classical guitar, moving to further his techniques in jazz music at JAM, école Jazz-Action-Montpellier, where he trained for three consecutive years. This trajectory led him to become interested in improvisation and innovation, where, beginning in 1998, he began to focus on electro-acoustic music and completed a training in informational technology at GRIM, the conservatoire de musique de Saint-Denis (Réunion), with J-P Jansen. After moving back to Montpellier, Julien began composing for theatre with the company L’Echarpe Blanche, where in 2000 he created a continuous sonoric landscape with improvised musical interventions, live, in L’annonce faite à Marie, by Paul Claudel. His musical research with prerecorded landscapes and live music continued in collaboration with Jérome Hoffmann for Théâtre de la Remise’s Un jour ressurgiront les caresses. He has also composed for young audiences for the company Enfance et Théâtre, (De l’autre coté du miroir) for actors and puppets, and for the Mosaïque company (Des petits cailloux aux étoiles). Since 2001, Julien is the sonoric designer of la Générale de Productions Audiovisuelles (Paris), where he composes regularly for TV and cinema, including documentaries, fiction films, and commercials. In addition, he is creating the soundscapes for the guided visits in the planetarium of La Cité de l’Espace de Toulouse, as well as for the Palais de la Découverte, Paris. Most recently Julien Valette often collaborate with Arte and Canal Plus as well as promoting his new Album, Labulo / Eklektik records Paris in France Spain and Belgium.