He is one of the best-known photographers of his generation and has exhibited all around the world. His series “La chute” (“The Fall”) made him an artist recognized by the public, after other professionals and collectors had appreciated his talent. In love with color and movement, he always carefully organizes his striking images in order to produce meaning and encourage thougths. This year, two of his series will be spectacularly displayed on the outside wall of the French Embassy. The series “Hyper” depicts young men and girls, dancers and athletes, floating in front of his lens in the colorful departments of the new temples of consumer society. Suspended in air, to the point where this would seem impossible without manipulation, these floating figures confront accumulations of products such as rolls of carpet. In addition, a radical series of “portraits” against a neutral background of young people in motorbike helmets, the new knights of the roadway, whose identity is hidden behind their armor, plays humorously with the well-known reticence of drivers of two-wheelers in Phnom Penh to adopt this indispensable protective gear.
Born in Paris in 1961. Lives in Paris. Graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in 1986. He began as a photographer of the rock scene and of film sets, then contributed regularly to Libération and the national press. From 1994 on, he began exhibiting his work. His work can be seen in many collections, such as the National Museum of Modern Art (Georges Pompidou Center), the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain of the Nicéphore Niépce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône, and the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration. Denis Darzacq received the Altadis
Prize in 2000, and is the Laureate (first prize) for “Stories,” from World Press Photo 2007.
