No Tears for the Creatures of the Night

Samu Kuukka 35 mm Film Photograph, Analogue Optical Processing, Digital Print 78 cm x 59 cm Edition of 5 2026

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 film photography. Sexy, dangerous, and irreverent, all these bohemians, nightbirds, and other noctambulants - artists, actors, musicians, philosophers, poets, and models, and demimondaines - take the city to themselves after the bourgeoisie has turned off the nightstand light.

Samu Kuukka is a photographic artist, filmmaker, and musician based out of Helsinki. In his visual work, he examines the human condition in the era of postmodernism and late capitalism. He looks for random glints of bittersweet beauty and melancholy, and usually finds these in liminal places and moments.