‘Refuge, Five Cities’ by Bas Princen
Bas Princen, Sand ridge, Amman, 2009 Bas Princen is a Dutch architecture photographer, who was initially trained as an architect. Princen is part of a group of photographers* such as Gabriele Basilico, Sze Tsung Leon and Francesco Jodice, whose influences generate from contemporary discourse around architecture and urbanism. He thus informs us about his practice ‘I go out to find photographs in which the artificial and the natural take each other’s forms and in which one is unable to see if things are being constructed or destroyed. I think that is the most interesting thing that can be said right now about the cities in which we live, and the landscapes in which we dwell (and vice versa).’ Bas Princen’s official website: http://basprincen.com/ Interview with Bas Princen: https://www.dezeen.com/2011/07/05/dezeen-screen-bas-princen/ Books of Interest: REFUGE. Five Cities Portfolio, Istanbul, Beirut, Amman, Cairo and Dubay’ by Bas Princen Seamless: Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture Project of particular interest: ‘Refuge, Five Cities’, available at https://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2010/05/11/refuge-five-cities-by-bas-princen.html * Including also photographers Ezra Stoller, George Cserna, Hedrich-Blessing and Balthazar Korah
Bas Princen, Ringroad, Cairo, 2009
