Through twentieth-century documentaries, Julien Heintz captures images of people who took part in pivotal moments in history. He seeks to capture the essence of today's defining events through these fragments of the past. Like a historian of the present, Heintz seeks out moments when big history intertwines with small and captures these moments to paint the complexity and depth of human experience. He examines a variety of moments, from the nuclear tests of the 50s to the first cruises. His art reflects a desire to capture the essential through images that tell the world's story, transforming life stories and distant archive images into a universal, familiar face. Heintz's anonymous, tightly framed faces bear witness to sensitivities and emotions, and their almost ghostly features appear like a memory we're trying to recall, as if frozen in a different space-time, one that no longer belongs to us.