Career
He has challenged a long-standing tradition of depicting buildings as isolated and static by representing people in architecture and showing the building"s environment, trying "to produce more of a story or a feel for a project" and "to communicate how people use the space". He has photographed buildings by many of the world"s most prominent architects, including Rem Koolhaas and Toyo Ito. He is "one of the most widely published" photographers in the world.
His candid "polysemic shots" have been compared to the work of Diane Arbus.
In 2012, he took the image of Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy that made the cover of New York magazine—showing light above 42nd Saint and darkness below that line—illustrating vividly the storm"s disparate impact. lieutenant was later turned into a limited edition print sold to benefit Sandy"s victims.
Dutch painters of the Golden Age, 2002, Online Computer Library Center 67086003
Iwan Baan at TED
Iwan Baan: 52 Weeks, 52 Cities, Exhibited in Montpellier (2016) Copenhagen (2015), Hamburg (2015), Herford (2013)
Iwan Baan: The Way We Live, 2013, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles
Iwan Baan, 2010 autour du monde, journal d"une année d"architecture, 2011, Hyères
Iwan Baan - Recent Works - Contemporary Architectural Photographs, 2008, London
Building China Five Projects / Five Stories, 2008, New New York