Denis Dailleux’s Égypte, les martyrs de la révolution is a work of photographic remembrance centered on the men and women—many of them young—who lost their lives during the Egyptian Revolution of 28 January 2011. Published in 2014, the book addresses deaths attributed to police violence and pro-Mubarak militias, keeping individual lives in view within a history often represented through demonstrations, political leaders, and collective unrest.

Dailleux’s photographs are joined by texts from Abdallah Taïa and Mahmoud Farag. Drawing on accounts from witnesses and relatives, the writers reconstruct the lives of the dead and the character of their political engagement. This collaboration gives the project a dual structure: photography establishes a space of remembrance, while testimony restores biography, relationships, and conviction. The martyrs are consequently presented not merely as emblems of revolution, but as people whose absence continues to be carried by others.

That emphasis distinguishes the book from a general chronicle of the Egyptian uprising. Its subject is not the full progression of political events, but the human cost concentrated in particular names and histories. The combination of portrait photography and biographical writing also asks how a photobook can record political violence without allowing its victims to become anonymous evidence. Commemoration and documentation remain closely connected throughout the project.

Issued by Le Bec en l’air Éditions as a 103-page hardcover, Égypte, les martyrs de la révolution deserves attention from collectors interested in politically engaged portraiture and in the photobook as a form of historical record. Its significance lies in the disciplined collaboration between image and testimony: a focused account of revolution constructed through the lives it ended rather than through a retrospective summary of events.