
And Then There Was the Night
- Publisher
- Outer Space Press
- Year
- 2025
- Specifications
- Debossed hardcover with a unique custom Risograph-printed cover, smyth sewn with black thread
23 x 33 cm
176 pages plus 32-page booklet
Offset and Risograph
Holmen TRND 80 gsm 2.0 volume, Opakal 40 gsm and vintage paper inserts
Edition of 300 copies
The project began when the artist duo stumbled on an eBay archive of handmade zines containing rephotographed images from a 1920s pornographic film. These booklets, it later emerged, were made privately by the so-called "Vampire from Dachauer Moor", an elusive figure of Munich's occult scene of the 1960s and 70s whose story teeters on the boundary between myth and reality. The photobook recontextualises the found zines and combines them with archival material from other sources, becoming an exploration of identity, obscurity and the power of narrative construction: a movement into shadow, grain and ambiguity, in which decayed, rephotographed zine material mythologises the past rather than restoring it.