The Paris series takes an abstract approach to depicting the city, while retaining a direct relationship with reality. It is part of the tradition of modernist photography, but it distinguishes itself by the perfect appearance of digitally retouched images taken with a medium-format camera. Shadows play a key role in dissociating locations from their classical visual representation. The economy of form created enables the depiction of Paris to be radically transformed, going beyond the customary descriptive task of photography. ‘Paris’ was published in 2025 by 5 Continents Éditions.
Bruno Sassarone, born in 1975, lives and works in Paris. He holds a master’s degree in law, but interrupted his legal career after winning PHOTO magazine’s 2005 Canon Prize and the Front Cover Prize of the January/February 2006 issue. Since 2008, his work has been exhibited in galleries in Paris and Brussels. ‘Paris’, his first book of photographs, with a preface by actress Aurore Clément, was published in 2025 by 5 Continents Éditions (Milan) in French and English. His work explores abstraction through significant places, in order to question the representation of reality.
