Guillermo Hung’s Walking Portraits Written by Jeffrey Gangemi Photographs by Guillermo Hung

Guillermo Hung’s photography seems to revel in the character of his transplanted home. Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, Guillermo’s work is at once representational, objective and subjective; it depicts the hodge-podge of characters that crosses his path, not only in his neighborhood of Greenpoint, but under the rocks and between the crevices of the New York cityscape.

In Walking Portraits, we are left to interpret a multi-colored cross-section of this great city’s population. The subjects are familiar, like one scoop out of a grand container, but they capture such a pronounced sense of the moment as something complete unto itself. Some of his subjects know they’re being photographed. Some don’t. Some of his subjects are immersed in the affections or company of others, and some seem to hover suspended in aloneness.

From the “Naked Cowboy” to the Hasidim, and everyone in between, the city’s relentless diversity is best viewed on foot. Guillermo Hung does, in Walking Portraits, what seems an impossibility: he takes a unique experience and duplicates it for conscious consumption, as if putting it in his hip pocket for later.

On The Web | www.guillermohung.com/walkingportraits