ETIENNE PERRONE - Photographer
About
At the center of his practice today is Dreams Happen After Dark, a nocturnal photographic body of work built around light, the tension of the frame, and a precise use of colored flashes directly on location. His images do not seek to document the city as it is, but to reveal its points of rupture: those moments when reality shifts, becomes denser, and begins to resemble fiction.
Shaped by a long-standing practice of cinema, photography, and staging, he develops a body of work in which formal precision never serves effect for its own sake, but rather the possibility of opening, within reality, a passage toward something more ambiguous, denser, and more inhabitable.
Etienne Perrone is a French photographer and award-winning filmmaker. Active in the field of image-making since the early 2000s, his work as a director has received several awards, while his photography has been exhibited or presented in Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, Sharjah, Beijing, and Shenzhen, recognized by the LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2025, and published or featured by platforms including The Guardian, Feature Shoot, Life Framer, Subjectively Objective and Open Doors Gallery. His work has also been acquired in the United States through Kevin Barry Fine Art for hospitality projects.
In this short video interview, Etienne Perrone presents his artistic approach. His words offer a glimpse into his creative process — walking alone at night, transforming urban silence into cinematic, dreamlike images. A direct insight into the vision behind his rare photographic works.
