Julien Pebrel

Nikolaï is one of the members of the Doukhbor community of Gorelovka. He left to live in Russia as a lot of members of the community but recently he decided to come back to the village. He shares his life between Sotchi (Russia) and Gorelovka.

Gorelovka. In the yard of an Adjarian family, a fish in a holed plastic bag.

A rainbow after the storm. Zortikheli is the mountain pasture village of the inhabitants of Ghorjomi. A big part of the men and some families come here for a few monthes with their cattles. They have everything here: shop, school, etc

UTA (“Unitate teritoriala autonoma”, Autonomous Territorial Unity) of Gagauzia, Moldova - Ceadir-Lunga - In Konstantin Kelesh stud farm, a man takes care of one of the horses after its training

UTA (“Unitate teritoriala autonoma”, Autonomous Territorial Unity) of Gagauzia, Moldova - Besalma - Elena Ivanovna Voïko is 78 years old. She sings beautiful old gagauz songs “when i’m sad, and then i feel better”.

UTA (“Unitate teritoriala autonoma”, Autonomous Territorial Unity) of Gagauzia, Moldova - Avdarma - Ivan Vladimirovic Angelov is 80 years old, he’s a survivor from the 1946 famin, he was considered dead until being saved by his aunt.

One of the numerous branches of the Danube Delta near Sulina

Marian lives in Sulina, he often hangs around the streets in search of a cigarette or a petty job. He sometimes helps to unload the boat arriving from Tulcea. He lives with his father in a run-down apartment.

The parade rehearsal of twenty years of Abkhazia's independence take place in front of the former parliament of Sukhum(i) which was occupied and burnt by Georgians during the war.

The facade of the famous Hotel Abkhazia; under renovation.

In Mataghis, one of the villages which was bombed by azerbaijan army. Most of the inhabitants have left the villages after the bombing.

Five brothers from a numerous family on the Knowledge Day in the Chouchi school.

Julien Pebrel joined Agence M.Y.O.P. in 2011, becoming co-director in January 2016.

After a scientific training, Julien Pebrel turned to photography, studying photojournalism at the EMI-CFD in Paris.

He places travel at the heart of his photography and uses photography as a means to travel. In recent years, he has worked on Afghan migrants in Calais, factories recovered by their workers in Argentina, the Danube Delta and the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. Pebrel continues to work of this last subject, extending it to the whole of the South Caucasus and its unrecognized States: Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabagh.

Julien Pebrel collaborates regularly with the French and international press: M le magazine du Monde, Grazia, Géo, Libération, L'Obs, Mare, Sunday Times Magazine, Internazionale, Time, Newsweek Japan, Pèlerin, Huck, Causette, Le Monde, etc.

His work has received numerous awards: PDN Photo Annual winner, Marty Forscher Fellowship Fund award for student, the Grand Prix Paris-Match for student photojournalist and the Young Reporter's Award at the Scoop and Journalism International Festival of Angers.

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