Night Call Lyon by Pierre Sage

For more than five years, photographer Pierre Sage has staged imagined scenes inside some of Lyon’s most striking nightlife locations, transforming the city after dark into a world of light, attraction and visual fantasy.

Night Call Lyon moves between shadow and colored light, creating a cinematic portrait of nightlife where glances meet, bodies draw closer and the atmosphere of the city becomes part of the photographic story.

Lyon.

Where I was born.
Cradled in the wonder of colored lights and love,
Given life, brought up and made wise, “Sage”.

Where I lived out my passion for mathematics as a school teacher;
Succumbed to computer science, tempted and tamed
By all things binary: double life, double strife;
Expression of my creativity and sensitivity.

Where I awakened, swept away by the desire
To orchestrate an imaginary world of sensual aesthetics,
Revealed myself in a universe of imagery and fantasy,
Of colored shadow and light.

Now I have come full circle. Enlightened by Lyon;
She enlightens me still with her complexity,
Her charm and femininity.

Celebrated in echoes at every turn,
This world-class City of Lights is at once
Romantic and gastronomic,
Courted and coveted.

As Charles Baudelaire, author of The Flowers of Evil, once wrote,
“It is woman that casts the darkest shadow or the brightest light into our dreams.”

With the privilege of maturity, I now realize what this truly means.

Project
Night Call Lyon · Les fleurs du Mâle

Photography
Pierre Sage

Night Call Lyon

Location
Lyon, France

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