NYC Stardust is a photographic descent into the inner energy of New York: its architecture, its solitudes, its relentless human current. Windows stacked upon windows, lives upon lives, grids and crossroads, neon and shadows: Fabrice Catérini translates the city's simultaneous power and loneliness into images that resist the glamour clichés long associated with New York.
This is not a city walk, nor a portfolio. It is a photojournalist's attempt at catharsis: a deliberate plunge structured around Dante Alighieri's nine circles of Hell.
The first statue Catérini encountered upon arriving in New York was Dante's. From that moment, the book was set: like Virgil navigating the Inferno, he became a wanderer: night and day, through a city he chose to treat not as spectacle but as mirror.
The book follows this logic to its formal conclusion. Nine times, a directional arrow instructs the reader to physically rotate the book in their hands: one turn for each circle of the descent. To find the exit, you must go through the abyss. There is no shortcut.
NYC Stardust is a photographic object as much as a photographic work: a book that moves, disorients, and demands active passage.