Damien Dufresne is an atypical photographer: recognized in the fields of makeup and advertising, he finds in his career as an art photographer the freedom to forget the constraints of fashion and marketing.
He meets his models on the road, at a dinner or on the street.
People whose face touches him: a way of looking, a port of head, an attitude; he prefers introverted models, shyness seduces him.
For him the camera is only a tool that serves to immortalize the moment.
He paints the faces and bodies of his models, gives them all freedom except that of posing, asks them to be themselves, not to show feelings or emotions but to feel them, to forget the camera, to forget the gaze of others…
He always comes back to it… “forget the eyes of others”.
He creates a universe, installs his models become characters.
When asked about his career, Damien Dufresne replies: "I have no concept or career plan, I do not calculate, I improvise constantly. I do not try to provoke but I do not forbid anything, I make images that speak to me, images that have a meaning for me.
My previous jobs: hairdresser and makeup artist shaped the photographer I became.
I have lived and worked in Paris, Seoul, Milan, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai. I currently live in Siem Reap.”
2024 Exhibition entitled ICI OU LÀ, SOFITEL PHOKEETHRA, PHNOM PENH
2022 Exhibition entitled GLIMPSE OF EMOTION, MD ART CONTAINER, SHANGHAI
2021 Publication of the book GLIMPSE OF EMOTION at EDITIONS DE LA MARTINIÈRE
2021 Exhibition at PHOTOFAIR SHANGHAI
2021 Exhibition entitled WIND, GALERIE ArtCN, SHANGHAI
2019 Exhibition at PHOTOFAIR SHANGHAI
2019 Exhibition entitled MURMUR, GALERIE ArtCN, SHANGHAI
2018 Exhibition entitled CLANDESTINS, GALERIE YELLOW KORNER, PARIS
2018 Publication of the book entitled ONE at EDITIONS ARTRON SHENZHEN
2017 Exhibition entitled MASKS MARIE DALGAR exhibition, CROSS OVER, SHANGHAI
2016 Exhibition entitled WEIRD, SALON H, PARIS
2014 Exhibition entitled PAINTING ON ONESELF, SHOW ROOM EDWARD ACHOUR, PARIS
2013 Publication of the book entitled SKIN at EDITIONS ASSOULINE
2012 Exhibition ESPACE PIERRE CARDIN, PARIS
2005 Publication of the book entitled WAKE UP at EDITIONS ASSOULINE
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