NEOW by PETER NITSCH
By (author): PETER NITSCH
Title: NEOW
Subtitle: Echoes of Light
Blurb:
NEOW drifts through the city’s after-hours topographies, where neon haze clings to concrete and the quiet becomes its own kind of truth. Created during the period in which Nitsch’s mother passed away, the series reflects an experience many of us know - moving through loss, uncertainty, or transition while searching for something steady to hold onto. In these photographs, neon becomes more than illumination: it becomes a fragile form of hope, a glow in the dark that invites each viewer to find their own place within it.
While NEOW is grounded primarily in photography - roughly ninety percent of the work - Nitsch subtly intertwines elements shaped with artificial intelligence. These interventions are poetic shifts in reality: snow resting across a Bangkok rooftop parking lot, for instance, a surreal moment that could never exist yet feels uncannily right. Such elements deepen the sense of being in a strange, liminal situation - foreign yet mesmerising, disorienting yet beautiful - mirroring the emotional terrain the series navigates.
Amid the wide, wandering urban spaces, Nitsch introduces a handful of close-up portraits—brief encounters that surface and recede like memories. These faces create momentary punctures in the distance, offering flashes of intimacy that underscore how rare and fragile human connection can feel in a world shaped by solitude. Rather than disrupting the atmosphere, they remind us that closeness still exists, even if it appears only in passing.
The solitude that permeates these images feels both like an escape from ordinary life and a reflection of a post-isolation condition in which connection itself can feel unfamiliar. What emerges is a meditation on the forms loneliness can take: muted, melancholic, and strangely radiant. In the glow of streetlights and the silence between buildings, NEOW reveals how even in moments of profound loss, light - however faint - can still guide us toward understanding.
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"NEOW - a word born from the fusion of Neon and New, illuminating the night and revealing a unique perspective on life. It represents the transformative power of light in our lives that I experienced while making this series"
Peter Nitsch
ISBN: 978-87-7620-695-6
Book language: English
Publishing house: Snap Collective
Website: www.snap-collective.com
Editorial Assistant: Natalia Manole
Designer: Tea Jagodic
Published on: in production
Category: Art
Price (€): 129
Keywords: Bangkok, Thailand, Bangkok night photography, neon photography, urban landscape photography, nighttime cityscape photos, surreal urban images, emotional photography series, atmospheric street photography, minimalist city photography, moody neon visuals, contemporary photo book, conceptual photography book, experimental urban imagery, immersive photo narrative, modern photography project, neon light art, poetic urban photography, neon noir, noir photography