JULIA PONCIN
PARIS, FRANCE
2025
December 23, 2025 at 6:49:49 PM
- Julia Poncin (b. 1997, Lille) is a Creative Director and Fashion Photographer. Also maintaining a devoted painting practice, her elegant aesthetic universe serves as a perpetual testament to a subtle sensitivity to light.
- SLN: Which figure from the past would you most like to spend a day with?
J. P.: Georgia O'Keeffe or Frida Kahlo.
- Julia Poncin (b. 1997, Lille) is a Creative Director and Fashion Photographer. Also maintaining a devoted painting practice, her elegant aesthetic universe serves as a perpetual testament to a subtle sensitivity to light.
- SLN: What is your idea of misery?
J. P.: Winter days.
- SLN: What is your idea of misery?
J. P.: Winter days.
Julia Poncin’s editorial for Duel Magazine © Julia Poncin
Julia Poncin’s editorial for Duel Magazine © Julia Poncin
Following her studies in communications and graphic design, Julia Poncin moved into photography and painting as a self-taught practitioner. Her trajectory has seen her collaborate with the likes of Tara Jarmon, MAD Agency, Fête Impériale, and Inès de la Fressange. Today, she works as a freelancer, crafting campaigns, editorials, and narrative-driven content that assists brands in articulating their visual identity. Her work is distinguished by a minimalist and poetic atmosphere, borrowing an smart realism from the documentary tradition and a sensual sophistication from the studio.
Film outtakes from a campaign for Inès de la Fressange © Julia Poncin
A LESSON IN PAINTING
A LESSON IN PAINTING
- SLN: Which figure from the past would you most like to spend a day with?
J. P.: Georgia O'Keeffe or Frida Kahlo.
Julia Poncin’s work manifests a dual inspiration: her fashion references are as evident as her pictorial ones. "I never conceive of them in isolation," she explains. "Fashion provides me with forms, attitudes, and an attention to gesture and everyday textures. Art, however, allows me to slow down—to observe differently and to recount what I feel rather than merely what I see." This philosophy reflects a vital exchange, both in her practice and in her personal engagement with her surroundings. Her visual gaze remains perpetually curious, weaving a seamless continuity between the snapshots of her private life and her professional commissions.
SLN: Which figure from the past would you most like to spend a day with?
J. P.: Georgia O'Keeffe or Frida Kahlo.
Julia Poncin’s work manifests a dual inspiration: her fashion references are as evident as her pictorial ones. "I never conceive of them in isolation," she explains. "Fashion provides me with forms, attitudes, and an attention to gesture and everyday textures. Art, however, allows me to slow down—to observe differently and to recount what I feel rather than merely what I see." This philosophy reflects a vital exchange, both in her practice and in her personal engagement with her surroundings. Her visual gaze remains perpetually curious, weaving a seamless continuity between the snapshots of her private life and her professional commissions.
Caro by Julia Poncin © Julia Poncin
Caro by Julia Poncin © Julia Poncin
VESPERAL QUALITIES
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VESPERAL QUALITIES
SLN: What is your idea of misery?
J. P.: Winter days.
One is immediately seized by the specific light within Julia Poncin’s aesthetic. Its softness sublimates the raw truth of the profiles she captures. In her compositions, nothing is left to chance: illumination, depth of field, and subject poise are meticulously choreographed, yet they never forsake the impression of an instantaneous truth. Her work evokes the sun-drenched echoes of Carlota Guerrero, Pia Riverola, or Henrik Purienne, transposed into a late-summer Parisian landscape. We find here that warm refinement so dear to us—an evocative ideal of chic that has long fueled our collective imagination.
SLN: Your favorite place?
J. P.: A Corsican forest.
Saints la Nuit is delighted to count Julia Poncin among its key collaborators.
For all project inquiries and creative developments: contact@saintslanuit.com.
