Working Nights
Working Nights is a beautifully designed love letter to the liminal hours: a photobook capturing the raw energy, quiet solitude, and strange magic of Sheffield and London’s nightlife in the early 2000s. Through 29 full-colour photographs and evocative illustrations by Sheffield artist Paul Evans, Dan Sumption invites us into a world that exists between dusk and dawn, where the city breathes differently, and time takes on a dreamlike quality.
Split into themed sections, Working Nights explores:
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- Uncommon people – friends, old and new.
- Pernoctators – Pernoctator: One who stays up all night working, praying or partying.
- Art – Private views, performances.
- Ponderosa – Traces of crime.
- Psychogeography – The Peak District.
Printed in a compact A6 postcard format, this 68-page book is a tactile experience, with high-quality card pages that enhance the depth and atmosphere of each image. Whether you’re drawn to urban nightlife, psychogeography, or the poetry of the in-between hours, Working Nights is an invitation to explore the unseen side of the city.
Daniel Sumption
Daniel Sumption is a writer, artist, and explorer of strange landscapes, both real and imagined. His work meanders through folklore, psychogeography, poetry, and roleplaying games, always seeking the peculiar edges of storytelling.
His bibliography is as eclectic as his interests. In King Arthur vs Devil Kitty (illustrated by Maximillian Hartley), he resurrects a medieval French tale in the style of a 1970s picture book, complete with Monty Python-esque absurdity. Mostly Harmless Meetings offers 100 folkloric encounters for roleplaying games, where gossiping fleas and aristocratic frogs replace the usual combat fodder. Gespenwald is an adventure set in a ghostly forest of undead mycelium, appearing for only one night each year.
Beyond the realm of games, Daniel’s curiosity leads him into artistic and poetic experiments. Learning to Draw Trees is a year-long journey of sketching trees, culminating in a book that blends art, introspection, and even a tree-based roleplaying game. His poetry collection, Accidental Poetry Roadie, maps the intersections of land, loss, and language, while Working Nights is a photographic tribute to the nocturnal party-life of Sheffield and London in the early 2000s.
Daniel’s work celebrates the liminal and the overlooked: the places between night and day, past and present, fiction and folklore. Whether through words, drawings, or game mechanics, he invites readers to step off the path, to listen to the trees, and to embrace the mysteries that lie just beyond the everyday.
