Suisse de Nuit (Sunlight not Required)

The City, the Night, the Art: Seeing a City Anew, Beyond the Familiar.

Inspired by Brassaï’s legendary 1930s photobook about Paris, Suisse de Nuit is a visual homage to nocturnal Switzerland. The volume brings together urban night photographs from Bern, revealing the city in that mysterious light visible only after sunset. As in the masterpiece Paris de Nuit, the focus is not on documentary description but on the poetic condensation of atmosphere, shadow, silence, and glow. 

Familiar streets appear unfamiliar, stations turn into stages, and darkness itself becomes the true protagonist of the images. Marc Trost follows in the footsteps of a historical way of seeing and translates it into a contemporary visual language using today’s technology. A recurring motif of his nocturnal wanderings is graffiti—particularly light graffiti—which only becomes visible through long-exposure photography and adds a new dimension to this richly layered urban portrait.