NEW YORK ISSUE 36 Jun 2005

In ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, 100 subjects represent New York's 8 million population in an innovative and provocative way.

For these portraits, Horst Hamann recruited models from New York's broad ethnic kaleidoscope. Among them were several influential people that he met here over the years.

Horst confronts us with images of people who represent the melting pot of this great city.

When shooting, he asked all of them to close their eyes. Horst noticed that with closed eyes, the body language changed and almost transformed each participant into a sculpture.