Denis Piel was born in 1944 in France and grew up in Australia. He is best known for his work as a fash­ion pho­tog­ra­pher at Vogue, GQ and Vanity Fair in the 1980s. In 1987 he was awarded the Leica Medal of Excellence for his work in adver­tis­ing photography.

After great suc­cess in pho­tog­ra­phy, Denis began to explore the world of cin­ema and in 1985 founded Jupiter Films, a film pro­duc­tion com­pany that quickly achieved inter­na­tional suc­cess. In 1995 he made his first fea­ture doc­u­men­tary Love Is Blind.

In 2012, Rizzoli pub­lished Moments, a book that brings together fash­ion pho­tographs and por­traits of Denis Piel. Down to Earth was pub­lished in 2016. His books Exposed, Filmscapes and Platescapes were pub­lished in June 2020.

Piel’s pho­tos are part of the per­ma­nent col­lec­tions of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Fine Art in Boston as well as in numer­ous pri­vate collections.

Denis Piel resides at the Château de Padiès in France.