Samu Kuukka: Lust For Night

Lust For Night by Samu Kuukka explores urban nightlife in a highly intimate, involved style, but one that aesthetically moves away from the cool detachment and realism of traditional
documentary photography. In this vibrant series of nightology, the hedonism, rites, transgressions, and mythologies of the carnivalesque timespace of the big city night are brought before us in impressionistic and surrealistic flm photography. Sexy, dangerous, and irreverent, these bohemians, nightbirds, and noctambulants - artists, actors, musicians, philosophers, poets, and models - take the city to themselves after the bourgeoisie has turned off the nighstand light.

After dark, power shifts from the mighty to the meek and for the outsider, the night becomes a safe haven, something to disappear into, to eschew unwanted attention, or to escape the surveillance and the all-reaching hands of the system. In the city, the night is much more than the opposite of daytime. It is a culture of its own, it is a half-world ft for another, alternative, subversive lifestyle. Yet, while the dionysian revelries are liberating and intoxicating, in these sincere and personal noctuaries by Kuukka there remains a melancholy feeling of alienation from our society of late-stage capitalism, from which the debaucheries of the night are only a temporary reprieve. Even the headiest night comes to an end, but while we're still here, let's live like it's the last night on Earth.

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