About
“Photography and craft bartending are my major means of personal expression. These two passions each nourish one and one my creative process”.
Swizzle Press
Swizzle Press is the agency i launched to develop all my creative projects. Whether it's designing cocktails, doing a photographic work or publishing books, I strive to create a singular and inspiring sensory universe.
Cocktail Design
I like cocktails with a clean and modern style. The aesthetics must be precise and elegant, but flavour has always been the key.
My approach remains the same whether it's an assignment for brands, or cocktails that I have to put on my bar menu.
Awards
Top 10 International Entrepreneur of the Year 2019
Most Influential French Bartender 2013
World Winner, Grand Prix International HC, La Havana 2012
Drinks International Bartender of the Year, London 2004
Photography
Whether it's personal projects or assignments, I try to keep an artistic consistency in my approach to photography.
Whatever the subject, be it culinary, portraiture or conceptual, I work with the same vision and love of black and light.
Publications
Cocktail Now, Editions de la Martinière, Paris 2015
Cocktails : leçons de dégustation, Editions de la Martinière, Paris 2012
Art Cocktail, Editions Minerva, Paris 2006
Recognition
« The real resident genius is the owner, Julien Escot, an award-winning bartender whose concoctions are a global journey ». The New York Times
Aperture
In 2018, I founded Aperture in Montpellier. An award-winning cocktail bar with an Art Gallery feel. By day, it becomes my ideas laboratory or even my photographic studio.
Gallery Representation
Art et Patrimoine +334 48 79 84 70
Le Reservoir, Sète
Le Reservoir, Paris
La Serre, Montpellier
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For project proposals or for sharing some iced cold Daiquiris.