Born in 1967, he lives and works in Paris. Since 1992, Denis Rouvre has been shooting portraits of stars in the limelight and anonymous beings with ordinary lives and extraordinary fates, those he names himself his “contemporary heroes”. A number of his personal series, investigations into the power and fragility of man, have been exhibited in France and abroad, at Rencontres d’Arles, FIAC, and Art Paris, Pinacothèque de Paris, Tjibaou Cultural Centre in Nouméa, LiFE in Saint-Nazaire… Rencontres d’Arles festival has presented in 2014 his latest series on French people, as a video installation, Identities, intimate territories. In 2015, Museum Kunst der Westküste in Germany presents Low Tide and Barbado Gallery in Lisbon will present some of his works in the group show “Portrait of the world” with those of Nadav Kander, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Martin Parr, and others. Ecurie Palla M’bengue - Rufisque, Sénégal 2009 © Denis Rouvre