| Denis Piel | |
| Birth Place: | France |
| Occupation: | photographer |
Denis Piel is a French photographer and film-maker. He was born in France in 1944. He was raised in Australia[1] and educated in the United States. He lives in the south-west of France.[1] He worked as a fashion photographer in the 1980s; from 1979 he was under contract to Condé Nast.[2] 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 [1] A book of his photographs of women, with brief texts by him, Donna Karan and Polly Mellen, was published by Rizzoli in 2012.[3] [4]
Piel won the Leica Medal of Excellence for Commercial Photography in 1987.[5] 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.[5] [6]