If the night is your day, you know that your inner clock does not run according to the times that are considered „normal“ in society. I, too, feel the same way.

With my photo documentation I wanted to investigate the nocturnal Stuttgart and in doing so I set myself certain locations, as well as parameters, which were to be repeated over the entire period of the documentation. I mainly focused on the districts of Stuttgart Mitte and Stuttgart West and wanted to investigate and report on them. As a temporal framework I set myself a time between 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m., four hours of pure darkness, which were illuminated by the lights of the city.

These photographic explorations were to be compared to a trip that began in a lockdown with curfew. After 10pm, the streets were as deserted as I had ever seen in Stuttgart. This curfew ended with nights of public partying again, and for a moment it felt as if everything was as it had been a few years before.