dienacht is a printed magazine for photography, design, and subculture, founded and edited by Calin Kruse with Yana Kruse handling submissions and editorial coordination. Published in limited editions of 1,000 numbered copies, bilingual in English and German, the magazine ran for twenty regular issues and six special editions over a decade before its final regular issue appeared in 2017. Fashion photography was explicitly excluded from the start. Everything else was welcome: strong, timeless images from all photographic genres, underground cinema, music, and reviews of photobooks, fanzines, and other magazines.
The contributor lists read like a roll call of international photography talent operating outside the commercial mainstream: Roger Ballen, Asger Carlsen, Ingar Krauss, Chad Moore, Andrew Testa, Alisa Resnik, Justin Maxon, Denis Dailleux, Tierney Gearon, Sarah Sudhoff, Daisuke Yokota. Each issue featured one or two illustrators or graphic designers alongside the photographers, and the magazine's online platform extended the editorial vision with artist portfolios, open calls, and a blog that functioned as a living archive of contemporary photography.
dienacht was not only a magazine. Single and group exhibitions took place across Germany and Luxembourg, guest lectures were held at universities and photo festivals, and portfolio reviews were organised during the Duesseldorf Photo Weekend. Calin Kruse also established dienacht Publishing as a photobook imprint. When the final regular issue appeared, Kruse wrote simply: twenty issues, six special editions, and ten years have passed. The night, it turned out, had been remarkably productive.
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