"...Danakil's images are subtly unsettling and exude an eerie sense of stillness. [...] Though immediately arresting, the real meaning of his pictures unfolds in time." - ArtForum
"Exibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Shanghai or at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, his work is an exploration of the ambiguous spaces that exist between youth and nostalgia, intense summer sunsets and vanishing lights, animals and lonely androgynous humans." - Very
"...the images capture grimaces, pain, and that most melacholic of states, boredom [...] the resulting pictures are as grainy as they are powerful." - Numéro