Location: Guadeloupe
Artist Biography
Daniel Dabriou was born and lives in Guadeloupe, his interest in the world through photography goes back to his childhood. He trained in photography during internships at the EFET Photography (Paris) in 1986/87, as a photographer's assistant. During the year 2014, he adds to his training the School of Photography of Arles.
Coming from a cultural environment shaped by orality, he never ceases to question the relationship between image and word. His photographic approach is both documentary and visual. Man is at the base of his photographic research, in all its complexity. His work is hybrid, it is done in silver and digital, in the camera. For Daniel Dabriou, the photographic chamber is an access to another temporality of photography. For several years now, he has been particularly interested in the old photographic printing processes, callitype, cyanotype..., for the poetry they intensify in the image.
His practice is plural, he refuses to be confined in one type of photography and prefers to travel and explore different territories. He uses the poetic dimension of the image to deviate from the representative archetypes of the Caribbean territories. He regularly intervenes as a photography teacher in preparatory classes for art school entrance exams.
Since the year 2010, he presents his work during various cultural events and collective or personal exhibitions, in Guadeloupe and in the Caribbean.
• 59°, A Land, Men, Rum, Saint-John Perse Museum, November 2018-January 2019
• Between dance and trance, Saint John Perse Museum, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, 2017
• Carré d'art de Guadeloupe Government House, Saint-John's, Antigua, 2016
• He has been working since 2014 on, Dlo doubout*, (an ongoing photographic study on the foundations and evolution of Guadeloupean society through the prism of sugarcane, it is a collective project).
• He is also the author of Carnaval en Guadeloupe - VIM, Very Important Mass, published in 2012.
• Two articles have been published about his work by Black Renaissance Noire NYU, New York, in 2017. It is also present in public collections.
