This extraordinary project began when Wysocka and Pogo stumbled upon a peculiar archive on eBay—a collection of handmade zines containing rephotographed images from a 1920s pornographic film. This cryptic find sparked a deeper investigation into its origin, setting the stage for the photobook’s haunting narrative. The photobook presents a fascinating journey into the mysterious life of so called a “Vampire from Dachauer Moor” whose story teeters on the boundary between myth and reality. By recontextualizing the found zines and integrating them with other archival material, the photobook transcends the realm of a traditional historical record. It becomes an exploration of identity, obscurity, and the power of narrative construction.

'In a time oversaturated with high-resolution clarity, algorithmic recommendations, and endless visual consumption, 'And Then There Was the Night' enacts a deliberate reversal—a movement into the shadow, into grain, into ambiguity. The work of Wysocka Magdalena and Claudio Pogo becomes a kind of visual incantation, summoning ghosts not to reveal truth, but to question the very desire for it. Their use of decayed, rephotographed zine material—originally culled from a nearly lost 1920s pornographic film—invokes an aesthetic of rupture. Rather than restoring the past, they mythologize it. The so-called Vampire from Dachauer Moor is not a character to be known, but to be felt—an unstable figure conjured from scraps, flickering at the edge of memory and imagination. Here, myth is resistance: to surveillance culture, to historical sanitisation, to the endless demand for legibility. In embracing the fragmented, the erotic, the obscure, the artists reclaim a visual space for slowness, for suspicion, for doubt. Where contemporary media insists on immediacy and exposure, this work luxuriates in concealment. Darkness is not absence here, but potential—the site where new, untameable narratives form. The night becomes a kind of radical archive: not to preserve, but to transform; not to show, but to suggest. The vampire, then, is less a monster than a medium—feeding not on blood, but on the forgotten textures of discarded imagery.' — Andrea Copetti / Tipi Bookshop ____________________________________________________________________________ We are estimating that the first pre-orders will start shipping beginning of July. Limited amount of copies are available now to pre-order with a reduced price of 80,-€, regular retail price will then be 95,-€.