Alliance Française of Madras Indo-French Cultural Centre
Date/Time
Date(s) - 27/02/2016
6:00 pm
Location
Edouard Michelin Auditorium - Alliance Francaise of Madras
Categories
Alliance Française of Madras & Chennai Photo Biennale with the support of Oman Air present
Artist Talk
By : Denis Dailleux
Denis Dailleux was born in 1958 in Angers, France. Lives in Cairo. 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.
