Paris, 2025

Influenced by photographers including Brassaï, Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Saul Leiter, as well as painters such as Edward Hopper and Paul Delvaux, Nicolas Rachline discovers beauty in ordinary places and in hauntingly striking spaces. His book Elsebound is full of visually striking imagery, recalling classic film noir style with chiaroscuro effects and deep shadows. Rachline has created a cinematic journey, where the images unfold like traces of a story. Elsebound by Nicolas Rachline is published by Rizzoli Share

NYC, 2016

Deserted streets glow with pale light, an anonymous isolated shadowy figure is at a crossroads, and landscapes shimmer between the ordinary and the surreal Share

Brussels, 2021

His dreamlike and mysterious scenes in cities including Paris and New York are eerily familiar yet uncanny Share

NYC, 2018

Rachline: ‘To me this image could sum up this body of work. It’s a perfect example of desired solitude, timeless elegance and of time standing still.…