Born in the Bahamas, Dale Grant has lived in Paris, New York, Amsterdam and Berlin. He is currently based between Berlin and Rotterdam.
After completing a master’s degree International Relations, Dale turned to photography, pursuing a longstanding interest in people, identity and the ways we present ourselves. He has photographed fashion and portraits for magazines and fashion houses, including Chloé and Tommy Hilfiger. His practice spans two distinct but interconnected fields: portrait photography and fine art.
For Dale, portrait photography is about finding the beauty in every face. He looks for something in a person they may never have seen in themselves. The same instinct runs through his fine art photographs of flowers: in a face or a fading flower, he looks beyond first impressions to find what makes each one beautiful in its own way.
Dale photographs people for editorial and commercial clients, working in studios, workplaces and on location. He puts people at ease in front of the camera and directs them with confidence. His portraits combine distinctive lighting, thoughtful composition and a strong sense of character. His book Face: The Berlin Art Scene (Kerber Verlag, 2025) brings together 212 portraits of artists working in Berlin.
In his fine art practice, flowers become an allegory for life: its fragility, its transformations and the beauty of change. His series Fading Beauty, published as a book by Kerber Verlag in 2019, follows flowers through their final stage. As Dale describes it:
“As flowers begin to wither, their petals open fully, their vivid colors soften, and the petals become translucent, letting light shine through. Flowers all begin life looking rather similar, but it is as they wither that we witness their true individual beauty.”
His fine art photographs have been exhibited at Photo London and Photo Basel, as well as in galleries in Berlin, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and are held in private collections internationally.
Both books, Face: The Berlin Art Scene and Fading Beauty, are available here.
Fairs
- June 2025: Photo Basel, with nüüd.berlin
- May 2025: Photo London, with nüüd.berlin
Exhibitions
- June 2026: “nope-small size matters?” group show, nüüd.berlin, Berlin
- June 2026: “Schöneberg artists,” group show, Ballery Gallery, Berlin
- January 2026: “Vertical Horizons,” group show, nüüd.berlin, Berlin
- July 2025: “Bloom and Doom,” group show, nüüd.berlin, Berlin
- June 2025: “Sculpture & Portrait,” nüüd.berlin, Berlin
- June 2025: “The Pill That Cured Everything,” group show, Debsaysyes Foundation, Berlin
- June 2023: “Our Curated Self,” group show, Debsaysyes Foundation, Amsterdam
- February 2023: Rotterdam Art Week, Rotterdam
- January 2024: “Fading Beauty,” solo exhibition, nüüd.berlin, Berlin
- July 2022: “Nuit: 2.0,” group show, nüüd.berlin, Berlin
- May 2022: “As the World Turns,” Art Rotterdam, Huis van de Fotografie, Rotterdam
- July 2021: “Het Zoete Leven,” Art Rotterdam, Huis van de Fotografie, Rotterdam
- November 2020: Public space solo exhibition, Sofitel Hotel, Frankfurt
- November 2019: Public space solo exhibition, Sofitel Hotel, Munich
- April 2018: “Unkraut vergeht nicht, wir blühen,” Silber & Salz Gallery, Berlin
- March 2016: “Skin,” group show, Ballery Gallery, Berlin
- September 2015: “Equinox,” group show, Ballery Gallery, Berlin
- July 2015: “Around the World in 30 Days,” group show, Ballery Gallery, Berlin