Antoine d’Agata’s *Stigma*, with Philippe Azoury credited alongside him, gathers erotic photographs of couples engaged in sex within abandoned buildings. The pictures were made in November 2003 and May 2004 across Las Palmas, Naples, Vilnius, Brest and Paris. That precise geography matters: the work is located not in a generic realm of transgression, but in distinct European cities and in structures already withdrawn from ordinary use.

The title places a charged social term against an explicitly physical subject. Here, intimacy occupies derelict architecture rather than a domestic interior; bodies and disused rooms become inseparable elements of the photographic situation. By returning to the same premise in several places, the project establishes a matrix of repetition and difference—couples, acts, buildings and cities—without reducing its subject to a single location or encounter.

The resulting book is significant for the directness of this conjunction. Its subject is sexual, but its scope also concerns where private acts can be seen, staged or displaced, and how an abandoned site alters the meaning of exposure. The settings provide more than atmosphere: they situate the photographs within urban spaces marked by vacancy, while the title asks the reader to consider the judgment attached to what is shown.

Published by Images en Manoeuvres Editions in 2004, this first-edition hardcover comprises 64 pages. For a photobook collection, its interest rests in the concentrated relationship among a deliberately provocative title, a tightly defined body of photographs, and a cross-city framework produced within two documented periods. The credited collaboration with Azoury and the book’s compact form further identify *Stigma* as a discrete publishing project rather than a broad retrospective survey.