ETIENNE  PERRONE

Étienne Perrone is a French visual artist, photographer, filmmaker, and composer. Trained as a director of photography in cinema, he has built a career spanning more than thirty years across film, video, and music. This multidisciplinary background now fuels his photographic practice, where technical precision meets poetic intuition.

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For over twenty years, Perrone has wandered the world’s cities alone, often at night. His nocturnal walks are a personal ritual: long hours of drifting, camera in hand, in the posture of an invisible flâneur. His photographs emerge from these suspended moments when the city, emptied of human presence, becomes a spectral stage. They capture the tension between concrete, neon, and silence — fragments of an “archaeology of silence” that reveal the invisible and transform the ordinary into fiction.

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Perrone’s career extends beyond photography. As a filmmaker, he has explored the languages of cinema and narrative imagery, cultivating a cinematic aesthetic that permeates his still images today. In parallel, he is also a composer and producer of electronic music with the duo Doppelhandel, whose sound explorations echo his quest for atmospheres, textures, and vibrations. This cross-disciplinary approach between image and sound shapes a coherent, distinctive, and immediately recognizable body of work.

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His photographic practice is defined by a high-end and uncompromising approach. Each artwork is printed in very large format, in strictly limited signed editions, on Hahnemühle fine art paper mounted on alu-dibond. No mass editions, no concessions: rarity is embraced as an artistic and aesthetic value.

Perrone’s works have been exhibited in Paris, Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, Sharjah, Beijing, and Shenzhen, and published internationally in outlets such as Subjectively Objective, Feature Shoot, and Life Framer. They have also attracted the attention of private and institutional collectors, including Kevin Barry Fine Art in Los Angeles, which has acquired entire series for prestigious hotel projects in the United States.

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Étienne Perrone’s universe is cinematic and deeply colored, infused with references to the 1980s, science fiction imaginaries, and Lynchian atmospheres. His use of artificial light — notably his signature pink flash — transforms reality into something strange and theatrical, as if every image were a set from a film that does not yet exist.

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Today, Perrone is fully investing himself in photography as his primary medium of artistic expression. His upcoming projects continue this trajectory: new series in Asia and the United States, exhibitions planned in France and abroad, and a forthcoming photobook project. He also envisions cross-disciplinary collaborations that merge music and image into immersive experiences.

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For collectors, following his work means more than acquiring an image: it is an entry into a rarefied, expanding universe. Each artwork is both a unique piece and a promise of a growing trajectory. Investing in Perrone’s work today is to join a singular artistic journey — one that is rigorous, cinematic, and destined to endure.

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Collectors, curators, and art lovers are warmly invited to get in touch to discover available works, discuss upcoming projects, or explore new collaborations.