Night Shift
Year
2023
Kind
Documentary
Place
Lisbon, Portugal
Credit
Personal project, shown at a city festival (sample)
Film and camera
Cinestill 800T, Contax G2
Portraits of the people who keep a city running while it sleeps: bakers, nurses, cooks and street sweepers.
Between midnight and six, Lisbon is run by a few thousand people most of us never see. I asked them if I could stand next to them for an hour while they worked.
The series was shot on tungsten film under whatever light was already there: ovens, sodium street lamps, the green of a night bus.
4 a.m. The first tray of the day comes out.
A nurse on her break, watching the sky get light.
A cabbie between fares at the 3 a.m. rank.
The last bus, empty but for the driver.
The noodle stall on the corner: steam and one cook.
The kiosk that never shuts.
Rounds in the car park, torch and strip lights.
The avenue swept clean before anyone wakes.
