Denis Dailleux — Ghana

Galerie du Théâtre de la Passerelle
137 Bd Georges Pompidou, Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France

From January 12 until April 15, 2024

Opening January 11th 2024

Denis Dailleux is renowned for the unprecedented and passionate portrait of Egypt he has been creating for over fifteen years. In search of new creative horizons, he has also been a regular visitor of Ghana since 2009.

The fishermen of the port of Jamestown, a former district of the capital Accra, have become one of his favorite subjects. The community is a source of powerful images: seascapes with changing skies, the ballet of fishermen, the lives of the women and children who work on the port… He explores new relationships to the body and space, life and death, religion and the sea, which renew his photography. The serenity and pictorial clarity of his images reenchant a world and territories that are under threat today, and are all the more precious for it.

“It was with the fishermen of Jamestown that I experienced my first shock in Ghana. I was captivated by these scenes, as powerful as those found in certain old paintings, and also by the dazzling seaside lights, which sometimes transform the men into silhouettes. I loved the beautiful, free nudity of Ghanaian bodies. For a photographer, these bodies are a gift. »

Denis Dailleux