Ni figuratives ni abstraites, les photographies de Joël Denot échappent au regard comme à la classification et, tout en relevant d'un geste purement photographique, elles s'inscrivent simultanément dans une pensée picturale.

Neither figurative nor abstract, Joël Denot's photographs elude the eye, just as they evade classification and, while they are created by a purely photographic act, they are at the same time the result of a pictorial sensibility.