Daniel Dabriou was born and lives in Guadeloupe. His interest in the world through photography goes back to his childhood. Coming from a cultural environment shaped by orality, he never ceases to question the relationship between image and word.

Man, in all his complexity, is the basis of his photographic research. He uses the poetic dimension of the image to break away from the archetypes representative of Caribbean territories.

His photographic approach is both documentary and staged. His work is hybrid, using both digital and film. For Daniel Dabriou, the view camera provides access to another temporality of photography. His interest in old photographic printing processes, such as callitype and cyanotype, is increasingly present in his work. His practice is multi-faceted, and he refuses to be confined to one type of photography, preferring to explore and explore different territories.

Photography is to Daniel Dabriou what a book is to a writer, a concrete, palpable way of presenting thoughts and reflections: « The idea is the work of art, photography is the means of materializing it ».

Since 2010, he has presented his work at various cultural events and group and solo exhibitions in Guadeloupe, the Caribbean and mainland France.

In addition to his personal practice, he regularly teaches photography in preparatory classes for
art school.