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Photographer, architect and artist Michael Haus has explored the poetry of urban moments for his book project Elusive, traveling through a wide variety of countries such as India, Colombia, Morocco, France, Greece, Germany, etc. in his often painterly, multi-layered photographs. Everyday things from different realities become the main protagonists in a dialog of moments.
He finds such fleeting moments everywhere, which paradoxically often only reveal themselves after close observation. The images in this photo book from the period 2004 to 2024 condense through a sequence of image pairings, beyond chronology and geography, to create their own enigmatic, elusive visual world.
With subtle humor, a keen sense for colors, shapes and the spaces they create, Michael Haus finds his own unusual perspectives on the magic of our world. As different as the pictures are, they are united by their very own visual language.
As part of the DFA Editing Challenge with Wolfgang Zurborn, the book was edited by and with the photo book designer Nicole Keller to create a constantly surprising narrative flow.
This photo book invites us to see our human-made, globalized world anew, to question it, in order to finally find our own, perhaps poetic and confident interpretations of it.