ETIENNE PERRONE - Photographer
About
Etienne Perrone is a French photographer and award-winning filmmaker. Active in the field of image-making since the early 2000s, he has developed a photographic practice now centered on Dreams Happen After Dark, a nocturnal body of work shaped by light, compositional tension, and the precise use of colored flashes directly on location.
Through this series, he explores the city as a mental and sensory space: a place where silence, artificial light, and emptiness transform ordinary urban fragments into charged, unstable, and cinematic images. His photographs seek out those fragile moments when the visible world becomes denser, stranger, and more open — as if another reality were beginning to press through.
Shaped by a long-standing practice of cinema, photography, and staging, he develops work in which formal precision is always used in service of atmosphere, intensity, and emotional depth. His images are built to hold a tension: between reality and fiction, presence and absence, stillness and latent drama.
Recent exhibitions
2026 — ABANDONED, DUSK Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2026 — Camera Work: Shadow and Light, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
2026 — Urban Exhibition, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, UK
2025 — Rencontre et Harmonie des Nations, Beijing, China
2025 — Dialogue Artistique International Culture, Shenzhen, China
Selected earlier exhibitions
Galerie Jour et Nuit, Paris
Galerie Swap, Lyon
Galerie Ici est l’Art, Clermont-Ferrand
Sharjah Museum of Modern Art, UAE
Selected press / recognition
LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2025 — Juror’s Pick
The Guardian
Feature Shoot
Life Framer
Subjectively Objective
Open Doors Gallery
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.
