Patria Nostra is the fruit of three years of immersion within the French Foreign Legion. With this series, she won the Public Prize of the Prix Découverte Fondation Louis Roederer at the 57th edition of the Rencontres d'Arles. Through a body of photographs taken across several of its structures, Julie Joubert documents the journey of young recruits, from their selection to their integration into operational regiments. Beyond the military institution, her work questions notions of uprooting, belonging, and the reconstruction of the self, revealing the individual trajectories that emerge behind the imposed uniformity of bodies.
This project was produced as part of the national photographic commission of Regards du Grand Paris, Ateliers Médicis and the Centre national des arts plastiques.
The Patria Nostra series by Julie Joubert will in parallel be the subject of a publication with Éditions Loose Joints Publishing