Mother and Son

Dublin Core

Title

Mother and Son

Subject

Motivation: The series is about the intimate relation between mothers and their sons. It all started with a portrait of a young bodybuilder and his mother; departing from there, Denis Dailleux approached several men to portrait them together with their mothers. Unconsciously, it also reflects upon the importance of the photographer's relation to his own mother.

Description

The work of Denis Dailleux, who has been living in Cairo for the past nine years, is a lasting tribute to the generosity of the Egyptian people he fell in love with on his first visit fifteen years ago, and Mother and Son, without a doubt, his most personal work. With great respect and sensitivity, he takes us into these families' inner sanctum, where a bodybuilder son's absolute love sounds like an ode to all mothers, with the power to move viewers the world over.