DANIEL BELET

Like many photographers, Daniel Belet was drawn to the medium through the magic of the dark room. He was a teenager at the time and admired the work of people like Henri Cartier Bresson and Raymond Depardon, "photographers who had the ability to reveal the real," he recalls. He was interested in photography's ability to, as Beaudelaire says, "extract this mysterious beauty that lies in life unintentionally." It also helped him to overcome his shyness, he explains... A Franco-Swiss, Daniel was born in France and now lives and works in Zürich with his family, practising photography and working as a retoucher as well. He gained a degree in communication in Grenoble and bought his first camera with his student loan. "I gathered experience working as a retoucher in different laboratories and photolithography, at the time when technology transitioned from analog to digital," he recalls. And has had a fruitful career working with photographers and art directors in the fields of fashion and..

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