For five years Nick Nostitz traveled around Asia. Among the places he fetched up as a backpacker was Bangkok. The Thai capital fascinated him so much that he made it his base of operations for his work as a photojournalist in Asia. But his passion is documenting the city's nightlife. He sees it as a subculture 'with a morality and ethic that differs essentially from that in everyday life'. For BANGKOK TWILIGHT (1993-2006) he turned his camera on the seamy side of the city, full of sex, drugs and crime. Drug wars have claimed thousands of lives, and the police pay no attention to the law. Nevertheless, Thailand is still universally regarded as the 'Land of Smiles'.

Nick Nostitz (Germany/Thailand, b. 1968) published the photo book Patpong - Bangkok Twilight Zone about, as he himself puts it, 'the addiction to a very hedonistic lifestyle in the subculture of sex'. He submerged himself in it for a long time, frequently getting drunk and striking up relations with prostitutes. BANGKOK TWILIGHT, a sequel to Patpong, is a work in progress.