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Denis Piel
French photographer and film-maker (born 1944) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Denis Piel is a French photographer and film-maker. He was born in France in 1944.[1] He was raised in Australia[2] and educated in the United States. He lives in the south-west of France.[2] He worked as a fashion photographer in the 1980s; from 1979 he was under contract to Condé Nast.[3] He stopped taking fashion and advertising photographs in about 1990, and started a film company called Jupiter Films writing and directing TV commercials. In 2002 he made his first feature film Love is Blind [2] A book of his photographs of women, with brief texts by him, Donna Karan and Polly Mellen, was published by Rizzoli in 2012.[4][1][5]
Piel won the Leica Medal of Excellence for Commercial Photography in 1987.[6] His work has been exhibited at WOA - Way Of Arts is Lisbon, Portugal and is held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.[6][7]
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