Lights at Night: Contemporary Artistic Photographs from Lagos, Nigeria

Wiegert, Eva.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 10July 8, 2025<November 9, 2025

Lights at Night: Contemporary Artistic Photographs from Lagos, Nigeria

Eva Wiegert

Eva Wiegert draws on contemporary photographic series by African artists to examine how artists harness the city’s nocturnal light to reimagine urban space. These photographs not only capture the energy of nocturnal Lagos but also challenge stereotypes and invite viewers to see its people and places from new perspectives.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 10July 8, 2025<July 8, 2025

In the Glow of the City: Lighting Urban Space as an Expressive Tool in the Cinema of Bernardo Bertolucci

Sofia Panza and Carlo Ugolotti

Sofia Panza and Carlo Ugolotti examine the expressive and psychological uses of light in the city films of Bernardo Bertolucci.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 10July 8, 2025<July 15, 2025

Nocturnal Architectures of Allure: On Celebration and Illumination in Early 20th Century Turkey

Elif Kaymaz

What happens when the night becomes a stage for nationalism? Tracing the nocturnalization of national day celebrations, Elif Kaymaz argues that choreographed lightscapes reshaped urban space to cultivate emotions of unity, pride, and festive allure, offering citizens of early Republican Turkey not just a spectacle to watch but a space to inhabit.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 10July 8, 2025<July 8, 2025

Like Moths to a Flame

Laura Laabs

Laura Laabs follows the smooth path of a drone, the central vehicle in a tech demo for raytracing technologies. Using the moth as a figure for our relationship to light, Laabs asks what is at stake in such mediations of reflection and shine.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 10July 8, 2025<July 8, 2025

Celluloid Nights: Film-Technological Modernity and Weimar Republic Berlin

Simon Schiller

Simon Schiller examines the techniques used to capture night on film in Weimar-era Berlin and discusses the intersections of cinema, electricity, and light in urban modernity.