Artcrush: Tobias Zielony

I first encountered the work of Tobias Zielony when I publicized a show that the Goethe-Institut New York presented with C/O Berlin in 2007, the opening of which the Berlin in Lights Festival blog reported as "certainly the liveliest event I’ve been to yet," and he has remained in my mind as one of my favorite contemporary artists since. He is known for photographing young people hanging out at night in cities like Bristol, Marseille and Los Angeles, and, even given the occasionally time-worn aspects of that aesthetic, his work is as seductively compelling as an endless evening with no agenda and the possibility of broken rules.