French photographer, born in 1958 in Angers, lives in Paris.
“ Imbued with his distinctive delicacy, Denis Dailleux’s photographic work appears calm on the surface, yet is incredibly demanding, run through by an undercurrent of constant self-doubt and propelled by the essential personal bond he develops with those (and that which) he frames with his camera.
His passion for people has naturally led him to develop portraiture as his preferred means of representing those whose true self he feels an urge to get closer to. Which he has, with actress Catherine Deneuve as well as with countless anonymous subjects from the slums of Cairo, working with the same discretion, waiting to get from his subjects what he is hoping they will offer him, without ever asking for it, simply hoping that it will happen. That is how he has patiently constructed a unique portrait of his beloved Cairo to create, with black and whites of exemplary classicism and colors of rare subtlety, the definite alternative to the heaps of cultural and touristic clichés which clutter our minds. “ (Christian Caujolle)
For a few years now, while continuing to photograph Egypt, Denis Dailleux has regularly travelled to Ghana where he explores new relationships with the body and space, life and death, community and sea, which open up new horizons for his photographic research.
Regularly exhibited and published in the national and international press, his work is the subject of numerous monographs. Denis Dailleux is also the winner of prestigious awards including a World Press Photo – Staged Portraits category for his series “Mère et Fils” in 2014. Moreover, he won in 2019 the Roger Pic Prize awarded by the Scam for his series “In Ghana – We shall meet again“.