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MY UNIVERSE

In my photography, I seek out that fragile space — the one just before waking — a suspended moment where dream and consciousness overlap, and images surface without warning. That’s where I feel most alive. I slip into it with curiosity, letting fleeting fragments emerge, visions balanced somewhere between reality and imagination.

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My gaze is deeply informed by art history: the splendor of ancient civilizations, the grace of neoclassical painting, and the sophistication of fashion magazines. Figures like Irving Penn, Guy Bourdin, Paolo Roversi, Erwin Blumenfeld and André Kertész resonate with me. From these influences, I draw a visual language that is sensitive, narrative and sensual — where past and present echo each other without nostalgia.

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I work with both film and digital, depending on the mood of the project. My visual universe is made up of pared-down images, often near-silent, populated by fragile presences. I’m drawn to revealing a shifting kind of beauty — often embodied by the female form — that speaks freely with forms from the past: bas-reliefs, frescoes, ancient sculptures.

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My visual language is built on three forces: classical harmony, Zen simplicity, and a quiet longing for the creative freedom of the 1970s — still discreet, but very much present.


Through my images, I invite the viewer to pause for a moment, to let themselves be brushed by a fleeting grace.

© 2025 Pierre-Yves Lesage

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