Let's explore the nights of Scania, Sweden. Beyond the sunset the national flag has been hauled and the streets have been cleared of people. The present beat of music dies off and the last drunk people drag themselves home from a long party. After the bars close not even the police stay out besides maybe a lonely patrol car that takes a round around the streets. Who has the endurance to be awake and out after that? Turns out that the dead of the night belong to the night shift guards, the home caretakers, the newspaper workers, and the insomniac. This album presents the streets after the city has gone to sleep and what one might encounter on a night shift. The photos have been taken continuously over the span of a year in various weather, temperatures and across seasons.

June and August

At night the animals come out in the city. Sometimes a rat will run in front of the camera trying to escape a cat on its tail. Hares and rabbits hang around on patches of grass and gnaw on the lawn. They are shy of humans to which they rarely get caught on photos and act as a figure in the night backdrop. In contrast, cats have a tendency to silently follow humans around. No matter where you go or what you do, a cat will hide somewhere and watch you. A look around may reveal where the cat is by a pointy ear protruding out from a bush.

However, cats are cats and it's not all who hide. If you call on the cat it might reveal itself. When a cat approaches a person for the first time they will smell the unknown human's hand before deciding whether to come closer or not. This is a very important first greeting for the cat.

Of course, different cats have different personalities. There are cats who will run away when they are called on and other cats will ruin straight for the person calling. Sometimes the cat will call out a human because they want them to open a door.

As an example how they can vary, there are two cats on a square: one black and one white, where the black cat ran right up to the camera for a greeting while the white cat hid in the background. In another instance an orange cat laid down in front of the photographer's bicycle so he could not leave.

If one stays out all night they will occasionally see something strange. In one encounter there was a bunch of wasps that had created a nest in a lamp in front of an apartment. Their buzzing noise would catch anyone standing below with unease. Besides the occasional, the night scenery will change slightly between nights but the night sky will still be very familiar. The indigo morning twilight and the golden light of the sunrise.

September and October

November and December

January, February and March

April and May

June

As the summer continues the early sunrises go up with different colors and juicy fruits grow in abundance. Apples, plums, cherries and other fruit dangle from their trees. The summer passes, it becomes dark and winter starts again. Those are the Scanian nights.