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photos: Christian Reister
We’ve all seen them: The colorful lights, the crazy excess, the happy and wasted faces, the empty Club Mates and Jägis, the shabby “ironic” disco balls. Berlin nights are intense, they are fun, they are rough. But what happens outside of the usual clubs that we know and go to? There seems to be an endless amount of parallel worlds in this city, places and scenes and people we never come across. Hidden strip clubs, private parties, ball rooms and Kneipen, strange places and strange people. Well, maybe they are all not that strange, for them, we are the strange ones.
Photographer Christian Reister has captured this other side of Berlin’s nightlife in his photo book Alle Katzen Grau. The title is a short form of the German proverb “At night all cats are gray”. Through his lens he takes us on a trip through the night to places that look so foreign, yet they are in the same city that we know so well. He shows us a world beyond the hip clubs, crowded bars and popular streets – a world beyond youth culture, beyond techno parties, beyond boundaries. The photo book is available in a beautiful limited edition of 200. Have a look inside on our favorite images of the book after the jump.
Bin mir nicht sicher ob diese s/w New York oder meinetwegen auch London Ästhetik auf Berlin funktioniert
@Cornelis: Na, erst einmal stehen die S/W-Aufnahmen von Christian Reister ja mal für sich; und da funktionieren sie formal und inhaltlich tadellos. Wieso muss man da eigentlich ein völlig subjektives “das-hat-aber-eine-in-London-oder-New-York-funktionierende-Ästhetik-aber-doch-nicht-für-Berlin”-Fass aufmachen? Das sagt doch nichts über die Fotos, sondern nur etwas über den Kommentator.
Ha.the guy on the U8 platform in the gorilla suit. Ha love the late night U8 always a fun ride home, insomniac world of wasted clubbers. Lovin’it
Story from 2015, but not much has changed with the late night people.