Sober After Midnight (conceptual)

by
Milo Weiler

Artists: Zoë Brouwers, Tine Teyrlinck and Milo Weiler

Sober After Midnight is an award-winning fine art photography series exploring the intimate and universal experience that unfolds behind the scenes of a night out. The work traces the subtle tension between control and surrender, from the anticipation of putting on your shoes to the relief of slipping them off, from a carefully constructed self to the quiet chaos of the bathroom mirror at the end of the night. The series was created in response to the open call "After Midnight," organised by Different Class, Fujifilm Belgium and AB Concerts, and was selected as the winning entry. Shot in Belgium, it is part of an ongoing personal photography practice explores the dualities we all carry.

A person in red pants and a black top fastens a high-heeled shoe while seated in a bathroom filled with various items.
Zoë staring intensely into a bathroom mirror under green light with the words Tandje Bijsteken in red on the glass, from the award-winning fine art series Sober After Midnight by Milo Weiler.
Portrait of Zoë with dramatic star-shaped eye makeup and red lips eating noodles under green light, from the award-winning fine art photography series Sober After Midnight by Milo Weiler.
Overhead close-up of Zoë with star eye makeup eating noodles from her hand in a bathroom under green light, from the award-winning personal photography project Sober After Midnight by Milo Weiler.
Zoë with exotic star eye makeup checking her teeth in a bathroom mirror with red text visible on the glass, from the Sober After Midnight fine art photography series by Milo Weiler, Belgium.
Reflection of Zoë in a bathroom mirror under green light with the words Tandje Bijsteken written in red on the glass, from the fine art series Sober After Midnight by Milo Weiler.
Zoë with star makeup throwing noodles above her head against a green-lit plastic curtain, fine art portrait photography from the Sober After Midnight series by Milo Weiler, Belgium.
Zoë with star eye makeup staring directly into a bathroom mirror with red text on the glass, close portrait from the award-winning fine art photography series Sober After Midnight by Milo Weiler.
Extreme close-up of red lips and an open mouth with water droplets suspended in the air, fine art detail photograph from the Sober After Midnight series by Milo Weiler.
Zoë with star eye makeup brushing her teeth in a bathroom under green light, from the award-winning fine art photography series Sober After Midnight by Milo Weiler, Belgium.
Zoë with star eye makeup holding a colander of pasta above her face in a bathroom under green light, from the Sober After Midnight fine art personal project by Milo Weiler, Belgium.
Zoë seen from behind facing her reflection in a bathroom mirror under green light, with star eye makeup and red text on the glass, from the Sober After Midnight fine art photography series by Milo Weiler.
Abstract extreme close-up of an open mouth lit by green light from the Sober After Midnight award-winning fine art photography series by Milo Weiler, Belgium.
Extreme close-up of Zoë's open mouth lit from below by green light, from the award-winning fine art photography series Sober After Midnight by Milo Weiler, Belgium.