WERNER HAUG – PHOTOGRAPHY

What people do

New Yorkers have a variety of ways to create and protect an intimate space: pets, books, fashion, art. For some, streets, subways or shelters are the only home. For others, New York offers endless opportunities for hedonistic and eccentric pleasures.

The photographs are like colorful glass stones in a kaleidoscope. They show what I treasured in New York City: the energy and magic emerging from the juxtapositions of the small and ostentatious, the funny and gross, the rough and elegant, the proximity of greed with frailty and need, mediated and transformed by neighborhood and creativity.

Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, 2008-2014

What people do

What people do – text

What people do

New Yorkers have a variety of ways to create and protect an intimate space: pets, books, fashion, art. For some, streets, subways or shelters are the only home. For others, New York offers endless opportunities for hedonistic and eccentric pleasures.

The photographs are like colorful glass stones in a kaleidoscope. They show what I treasured in New York City: the energy and magic emerging from the juxtapositions of the small and ostentatious, the funny and gross, the rough and elegant, the proximity of greed with frailty and need, mediated and transformed by neighborhood and creativity.

What people do

Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, 2008-2014

What people do – text

What people do

Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, 2008-2014

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