Julia Gat

Mare Internum has been awarded the CNAP Grant for Contemporary Documentary Photography, supporting the ongoing development of this long-term project exploring the Mediterranean and my origins.

Invited by Forum Vies Mobiles, Centre Photographique Marseille, and Réseau Diagonal as part of a national photographic commission, I am developing a new documentary project exploring women’s football in Marseille.

For the past year, I co-founded the Marseille-based feminist collective SOLAR, working to create space, visibility, and sorority within the local photographic landscape. The collective has presented exhibitions in Marseille, Arles, and Paris, and participated in a summer masterclass invited by Magnum Photos.

Selected by RATP and Fisheye for the Mers et Océans exhibition across Paris metro stations, my work from Mare Internum was shown in multiple locations throughout the network, bringing photography into the everyday journeys of commuters.

I participated in Tracing Family Memories: Beyond the Album during the Arles Books Fair 2025, discussing my project Khamsa Khamsa Khamsa and the ways family archives and photographic narratives can extend beyond the traditional album.

My artist dossier is now published on Documents d’artistes PACA, the regional platform dedicated to documenting and sharing the work of contemporary visual artists.

My work is featured in THE PHOTOGRAPHER #1 — Families, a new bilingual (FR/EN) publication by éditions The Drawer dedicated to contemporary photography, released in November 2025 and launched at Paris Photo.

I participated in the Rotterdam Photo Talks panel Can Photography Rebuild Connection in a Divided World?, sharing reflections on how photography can create dialogue and connection in times of social and political fragmentation.

I took part in the ENSP Arles Mentorship Program 2024, benefiting from a year of individual and collective mentoring to support the development of my artistic practice and long-term projects.