"All cats are grey": Night Berlin in the lens of Christian Reister

Ryster is a documentary filmmaker with a voyeuristic bent who is in the wrong place at the right time with constant constancy. Something intimate, sometimes obscene, personal or unrestrainedly hilarious unfolds in his shots. This is Berlin at night.

Christian Reister started photographing in 2001. His main interest is city streets and city life. Since 2011, he has been making black-and-white film shots in a grainy and often blurry style. (Careful! NSFW: There is nudity in the material)

His photobook "All Cats are Gray" (Alle Katzen Grau) is a dizzying visual tour of the city, released in 2015. This month, the photographer released a sequel – "Berlin Nights".

Ryster is not familiar with many of the people in the photos. Some of them are friends of the photographer.

A series of shots shows the night city from different sides – these are private parties, gatherings in the backyard or in midnight eateries, dancing in strip bars, people in the subway, random passers-by, acts of public exhibitionism, grainy silhouettes in the windows, swans on the pond. All this is Berlin at night, as Christian Reister shows it to us.

Keywords: 18+ | Berlin | Germany | Nightlife | Street photography | Photographer | B/w | Black and white photography

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