Damien Daufresne is a photographer born in Paris in 1979. He studied drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and video at the School of Visual Arts in New York and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He graduated in 2003. He has lived in Berlin since 2006. Besides photography, he works with drawing and short films.
His book Undertow was published by Blow Up in 2022. His book The Overmorrow was published by éditions Lamaindonne in 2025. It is a hardback with 108 pages and 54 photographs. The publisher, David Fourré, asked Daufresne to write a photographic tale. The book brings together black-and-white photographs, Polaroids and gouache paintings by his son Arto. Daufresne took the photographs mostly over about three years, with analog cameras. The book tells of children and animals, of undergrowth and clearings.
