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 nuitis the first monograph by French photographerFabrice Catérini. The book was published bySaetta Booksin November 2025 and designed byThéo 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 inYorickbyMatthieu 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 inExposurebyFederico 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 platesSection-sewn softcover, with mirror lamination and perforated dust jacketTexts in French and English, ISBN 978–2–9593672–1–2, November 2025
The typography creates a deliberately fractured, experimental energy that mirrors the psychological journey of night photography. The fragmented, deconstructed text treatment on Yorick suggests urban disorientation and the broken rhythms of nightlife, while the clean contrast with Exposure's classical forms evokes the duality between chaos and contemplation inherent in the photographic medium.
Yorick's distinctive character shapes and Matthieu Cortat's design philosophy allow for extreme typographic manipulation—repetition, fragmentation, and deconstruction—without losing legibility, essential for the concrete poetry treatment. Exposure's more traditional letterforms and balanced proportions provide necessary breathing space and readability for the central text, creating a typographic metaphor for emerging from darkness into clarity through the photographic process.
The pairing creates a deliberate typographic narrative arc that mirrors the book's thematic journey from chaos to clarity. Yorick's experimental flexibility on the cover and jacket establishes the disorienting energy of nightlife, while Exposure's classical restraint in the interior text provides the contemplative anchor needed for sustained reading, suggesting the photographer's eventual emergence from the darkness through his craft.