David Drebin: Dream the World

A new book of 60 photographs taken around the globe

With Dream the World, the multi-disciplinary artist David Drebin invites us into his latest fantasy. Following I Love New York, his celebrated homage to the city of New York Drebin opens his photographic suitcase and takes us around the world. The result is a distillation of Drebin’s universe that also opens a new chapter: from grand panoramas to intimate, charged moments that linger long after the last page.

Building on acclaimed books such as The Morning After and Dreamscapes, Drebin now turns his gaze to a world of shimmering skylines, mysterious muses, and iconic figures. In this lavish coffee table book, the visionary creator captures those moments where elegance, melancholy, and desire converge.

Expansive vistas, intimate interiors, and electrified urban horizons reveal a world of secrets: a glance from a balcony high above the city, a solitary figure lost in neon light, a fleeting encounter that feels like the beginning – or the end – of a love story, and ethereal muses drifting beneath the water’s surface like silent superstars. Each image suggests an untold narrative, suspended between fantasy and reality.

Drebin’s signature visual language, at once cinematic, glamorous, and psychologically charged, infuses every photograph with voyeurism and emotional tension, as if each scene were a fragment of a single, sprawling dream.

The book is a sensual love letter to the world’s great cities and the muses who haunt them – an invitation to surrender to a luminous, dreamlike atmosphere. Its lustrous gold-foil cover underscores the allure of the photographs, making the book an experience that captivates even before it is opened. Presented across 128 lavish pages, Dream the World features 60 new photographs captured between 2024 and 2026 in Paris, Mallorca, Milan, New York, Rome, Rio and Sardinia as well as along the Amalfi Coast and the French Riviera.