Iwan Baan, "Architectural Photography and The Decisive Moment"

06:30 PM - 07:30 PM Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Iwan Baan is a documentary photographer whose work can be regularly found in architectural journals like Domus, a+u, Mark or abitare and magazines like the New Yorker or NY Times. Personal exhibitions include Recent Works - Contemporary Architectural Photographs at the Architectural Association - London and Building China Five Projects, Five Stories at the The AIA New York Chapter. Iwan Baan's pictures revolve around architecture and its effect on the context, using the built environment as a backdrop for stories which unfold in the front. He is curating, documenting and collecting spaces from all over the world, revealing the role of architecture in contrasting urban, social and economical settings. The lecture is a brief insight in the process of capturing and telling stories with architecture as the scenery for different cultures and their ways of life. It is walk-through in pictures of my particular fascination with public space, the backdrop and generator of everyday life and my interest in documentary and reportage which lead me to the social perspective of photography, allowing me to illustrate what kind of difference public space and architecture can make in people's lives. Open to the public