Over the last twenty years the Basel photographer Nicole Zachmann has intensively engaged with portrait photography. In the mid-1980s she photographed protagonists of the subcultural Basel music and art scene from her extended circle of acquaintances and friends — some of whom have since achieved national and international fame and are now gathered in Fish of Hope. The post-punk settings of that cultural transit epoch encompassed rehearsal cellars, backyards, music studios and squatted apartments, above all in Basel but also in Zürich and Munich.