Berlin Afterglow #3

Berlin Afterglow is a series of nocturnes from the city's quieter hours — the stretch between last train and first bakery, when the streets cool down and the light turns honest. We made these images in a photographic register that draws on the late-night feel of Wim Wenders and Saul Leiter's color sense: warm bulbs holding their ground against blue-black sky, an Imbiss window glowing like a lantern, a single figure who looks settled rather than lost. The palette stays consistent across the series — burnt orange, kiosk amber, asphalt grey, the pale green of office windows left on overnight. The pieces sit together because they share that same hour. Each frame finds one anchor of warmth in the cold weight of the urban block — a counter, a stairwell, a tram window — and lets the rest fall to shadow. These are the Berlin moments that don't make it onto postcards, the ones the city only shows to people who stay out long enough to see them. Hung as a pair or a triptych, the series reads like a slow walk home through Mitte or Kreuzberg, somewhere just past two in the morning.