Photography, Video game, Landscape

New book

”Pascal Greco explores a relatively unexplored artistic field: in-game photography. He transposes his gaze into digital worlds, which he treats as real territories, from the Iceland of Death Stranding to the Japan of Assassin's Creed Shadows. His images take on a new materiality off screen: the paper highlights their textures, while a few glitches become poetic accidents. The photographer thus reminds us that in the 21st century, landscapes are no longer found only in the real world, but also in virtual environments.”
Le Monde

”The observations made from the video game offer a quasi-documentary perspective, as if the virtual world were a dimension that, through its distance, clarified our relationship with reality. While Pascal Greco first draws the reader in with these mirage-like images from around the world, the glitchy photos provide a counterpoint. They remind us that even in a world built entirely by developers, the unexpected can arise. The beauty of his photographs lies in this intersection between conformity to reality and the synthetic material that inevitably shines through, in the hope that progress in this field will not deprive us of these happy accidents.”
Polka

”An elegant monograph in which in-game photography has less to do with a geeky gadget than with an art form in its own right.”
Fisheye Magazine


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Pascal Greco made his first incursion into in-game photography during the pandemic thanks to the game Death Stranding and its landscapes evocative of a distant Iceland. Restricted to the confines of his flat, the virtual landscape opened up a liberating horizon before him, conducive to creative escape. The book he devoted to it in 2022, Places(s), marked the beginning of an artistic quest that would outlive lockdowns.
This new book, Photography, Video Game, Landscape, recounts the continuation of his long-term virtual exploration. For four years, Greco has been exploring in all directions, to the Caribbean (Far Cry 6) and the Norway (Assassin’s Creed Valhalla), to the Japan (Assassin’s Creed Shadow), the California (Cyberpunk 2077) or Mexico and Australia (Death Stranding 2). A dozen of regions of the world (video games) in total and as many backdrops, all of which play the role of their photogenic models.
By sublimating virtual worlds down to their inevitable glitches, he highlights and reflects on our increasingly fabricated reality.


You can order the book bellow Worldwide.


IDPURE éditions & Chambre Noire | December 2025.
77 Photographs.
128 pages | 22,5x30 cm | Design by Dennis Moya.
Soft cover with flaps.
Texts by Nadine Franci, Kunstmuseum Bern
Claus Gunti, Centre de la Photographie & ECAL
Matteo Bittanti, Milan Machinima Festival & VRAL
English & french.
Limited to 500 copies.