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The name Denis Dailleux stands for the delicate art of portraiture. The photographs of children he took in the 90s in the banlieue of Persan-Beaumont, France, "seize these kids and their world's truth in a precise and timeless way. (...) The more I contemplate these photographs, the more I realize how much they incline the viewer to look beyond what is shown. We are incited to overcome the boundaries and to withstand our mere astonishment at the evident grace of these beautiful and fragile bodies. There is a truly spiritual dimension to these images — to these resolved gazes and to …