Denis Piel

Denis Piel is a photographer and film-maker. He was raised in Australia and educated in the United States, and lives in the south-west of France. He worked as a fashion photographer in the 1980s. He is a grandson of Jean Piel, the editor of the French magazine Critique.

Piel won the Leica Medal of Excellence for Commercial Photography in 1987. A book of his photographs of women, with brief texts by him, Donna Karan and Polly Mellen, was published by Rizzoli in 2012.