Denis Dailleux was born in 1958 in Angers, France. He has published a series of photography books, portraying Egypt, Cairo, his impressions of the revolution, and Ghana. His photographs have been exhibited internationally in Paris, Marrakech, Accra, and across the world. Dailleux has been awarded several international prizes, including the Monographies Award in 1997, the World Press Photo Award in the portraits category in 2000, the Hasselblad of the town Vevey Award in Switzerland in 2000, the Fujifilm Award of Festival Terre d'Images to Biarritz in 2001, and the World Press Photo Award 2014 in the staged portraits category (2nd). He is a member of Agence VU and currently 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, Founder of Agence VU
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2017
Égypte, Galerie 127 (Marrakech / Maroc)
Everliving Ghana, ArchiAfrica Gallery (Accra /Ghana)
Les gens de mon village, Festival ImageSingulières (Sète / France)
2016
Ghana: We Shall Meet Again, Galerie Camera Obscura (Paris / France)
Égypte, Galerie Focale (Nyon / France)
2015
L’Égypte de Denis Dailleux, Médiatheque (Conflans Sainte Honoré / France)
2014
Denis Dailleux: Le Caire, Ghana, Musée Municipal (Angoulême / France)
Égypte, les martyrs de la révolution, Galerie fait et cause, Paris / France)
Mères et fils, Festival ImageSingulières (Sète / France)
Égypte, les martyrs de la révolution, Festival PHOTOMED (Sanary-sur-mer / France)
2013
Mères et fils, Galerie du Passage, Pierre Passebon (Paris / France)
Du Nil dans mes veines, Centre d'Art Contemporain Photographique Niort (Niort / France)
Mémoire d’une révolution, Centre culöturel de la Visitation (Périgueux / France)
2012
Egypte, claire et obscure, Bibliothèque départementale des Buches-du-Rhône (Marseille, France)
Mémoire d'une révolution, ManifestO Festival d'Images (Toulouse / France)
2011
Que se passe-t-il là-bas?, M’gisserie (Saint Junion / France)
Les grafiitis du Caire, Centre Culturel Français (Alexandria / Egypt)
Ghana, Galerie Camera Obscura, (Paris / France)
Du Nil dans mes veines, Espace Saint-Cyprien (Toulouse / France).
2010
Du Nil dans mes veines, Centre Méditerranéen de la Photographie (Bastia / France)
2009
Denis Dailleux, Atelier Publimod (Paris / France)
Désir d’Égypte, Galerie 127 (Marrakech / Maroc)
Fils de roi, Portraits d’Égypte, Galerie Camera Obscura (Paris / France)
2008
Le Caire et Tante Juliette, Centre Atlantique de la Photographie (Brest / France)
2007
Du Nil dans mes veines, Galerie du Passage (Paris / France)
Tante Juliette, La Filature (Mulhouse / France)
2006
Le Caire, Traders Pip Gallery (Maastricht / Netherlands)
2005
La mère du monde, Galerie Camera Obscura (Paris / France)
2004
Suite Egyptienne, Atelier Publimod (Paris / France)
2003
Le Caire, Atelier de Visu (Marseille / France)
Tante Juliette, Les Aubenades de la photographie (Aubenas / France)
La Caire, Institut Français de Barcelone (Barcelona / Spain)
2002
Le Caire, La Gambille, ODDC (Saint-Brieuc / France)
2001
Le Caire, Théatre Agora (Evry / France)
Le Caire, La Passerelle (Gap / France)
1998
Habibi Cairo, Le Caire mon Amour, FNAC Montparnasse (Paris / France)
Habibi Cairo, Le Caire mon Amour, Galerie Camera Obscura (Paris / France)
1995
Ma Grand-Tante FNAC Montparnasse (Paris / France)
1994
Enfants des banlieues, Galerie du Jour Agnès B. (Paris / France)
1993
Portrait Botanique, Nouveau Théatre (Angers / France)
1990
Ma Grand-Tante et Les Gens de mon Village, Galerie l’Autre (Paris / France)
Awards (Selection)
2014
World Press Photo Award, category „Staged Portraits“ (2nd) for the series „Mères et Fils“
2001
Prix Fujifilm du Festival "Terre d’images", Biarritz
2000
World Press Photo Award, category "Portrait stories“. For the series „Mawlid, Cairo“
Prix Hasselblad de la ville de Vevey, Suisse
1997
Prix “Monographies” des Editions Filigranes
1996
Bourse du Fiacre du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
Bibliography
Ghana. We Shall Meet Again, Le Bec en l’air, 2016
Égypte. Les Martyrs de la révolution, Le Bec en l’air, 2014
Impressions d'Egypte, La Martinière, 2011
Fils de Roi, Portraits d'Egypte, Gallimard, 2008
Le Caire, Le Chêne, 2001
Habibi Cairo, Filigranes, 1997
Collections (Selection)
Collection Agnès B.
Fond National d'Art Contemporain
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Collection Neuflize Vie