Quand vient la nuit by Fabrice Catérini

Published February 11, 2026

The story of this book begins where daylight ends: when night falls. It is the story of a headlong flight, far from the diurnal world and its harsh, singular, zenithal light. For as dusk descends, light sources multiply; celestial bodies and artificial glows transfigure space and time. Then he dives into these troubled waters, drawn in by the dark energy that runs through and transforms him. He does not know it yet, but he has embarked upon a journey that will last seven years. A voyage to the end of the night, no doubt, intense and initiatory, during which he will search for love in all the noises of the world, hunting for fragments of the real in the realm of dreams and masks. But the night, full of promise, always yields to dawn. And in the end, it is photography itself, the art of writing with light, that will allow him to emerge from the dark.

Quand vient la nuit is the first monograph by French photographer Fabrice Catérini. The book was published by Saetta Books in November 2025 and designed by Théo Miller.

The cover features a mirror lamination combined with a perforated black dust jacket, allowing light to pass through and creating subtle moiré effects and visual vibrations. Cover and jacket texts are set in Yorick by Matthieu Cortat (205TF), using a typographic treatment that plays with repetition, fragmentation, and text deconstruction.

Printed on the inside flaps of the dust jacket, at the beginning and end of the book, is Guy Debord’s palindrome, borrowed from Virgil: In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (“We go round and round in the night and are consumed by fire”).

The interior of the book is dense, combining a large number of photographs with black pages that immerse the reader in the darkness and agitation of the nightlife scene. The photographic sequence is interrupted by a long central text (the only white pages in the book) set in Exposure by Federico Parra Barrios (205TF) in a sober and classic layout, designed to contrast with the visual tension and rhythm of the photographic sections.

168 pages, 200×300 mm, 102 duotone plates
Section-sewn softcover, with mirror lamination and perforated dust jacket
Texts in French and English, ISBN 978-2-9593672-1-2, November 2025

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