Based in Paris, Fotogram is an indie folk-rock trio that brings together the vocal heritage of yacht-rock with a cinematic sense of songwriting. Their name refers to the photogram — a flash that captures a silhouette — a way of writing that lets the song reveal itself in layers, until it finds its shape.
 

The project took shape in 2024, when songwriter Sy Richards — influenced by various projects in the UK (The Pretty Things, Demob Happy) — invited singer Ingrid Kruusmägi and multi-instrumentalist Félix Béguin (Catherine Ringer, Camille, Cerrone) to an initial writing session. On the very first day, they set themselves a two-hour window to write a song. The result was 08:30 Sunday, their first track, written before they even knew they would become a band.
 

With only one song released, Fotogram set out on a Northern European tour in the summer of 2025: thirteen shows, six countries, over 7,300 km on the road. A bold move that allowed the songs to evolve in front of an audience, carried by the moment rather than the pursuit of perfection.
 

Their influences range from Laura Marling to The War on Drugs, with echoes of Crosby, Stills & Nash. Their songwriting takes the form of a logbook, made of dreams and emotions captured on the spot, then shared and reworked together.

From this process emerged Dream Journal, their debut EP: five dated entries where guitars can take on a soulful grain (Dream No.16), lean towards indie-rock (Carry On), or open onto an Americana glow (The Ballad of Willy Shaw), without ever overshadowing the voices.
 

Self-produced and recorded in Paris, Dream Journal, due for release in March 2026, marks a first milestone — a band learning to breathe together, and a body of work moving forward with sincerity.