“The city and the storm” wins Pictures of the Year International First Prize

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The 50 Most Iconic Artworks of the Past Five Years

Pieces that have defined our culture in the contemporary moment. 39. Iwan Baan “The City and the Storm,” 2012… Continue reading

Disruption Index: Iwan Baan – Next City

“…A serial globe-trotter who charters helicopters like most people make dinner reservations, Baan has become the most notable architecture photographer in recent years for his style of capturing not only buildings but also their urban context. It’s a more humanizing approach to a field that had previously been steeped in… Continue reading

The best photographs of 2012 – in pictures

From the camaraderie of the Tour de France to snipers in Syria, Sarah Gilbert selects her favourite pictures of the year. The Guardian… Continue reading

Iwan Baan is now represented by Perry Rubenstein Gallery

Some of the press: Complex Art+Design: Photographer of NY Mag’s Hurricane Sandy Cover is Now Represented by Perry Rubenstein Gallery ARTINFO: Iwan Baan Crosses Over Into Fine Art at Perry Rubenstein Gallery Gallerist NY: Iwan Baan Joins Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Proceeds of Iconic Sandy… Continue reading

The City and the Storm poster at MoMA

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy Iwan Baan chartered the sole helicopter to take off that night and shot this cover of New York without power. We are thrilled that the MoMA decided to make the now iconic image into a large-scale poster, measuring 42 inches high by 30… Continue reading

Our new book Torre David – Informal Vertical Communities is out!

Edited by Urban-Think Tank Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zurich – Photographs by Iwan Baan Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra-legal… Continue reading

Folk Medicine – Photo Essay – New York Times

The New York Times Magazine published the series about Nanping Village in China, which I made last month for Ou Ning’s cancelled Yinxian fotofest By Michael Kimmelman… Continue reading

A Cover for the Ages – TIME Lightbox

Last week, during one of the worst storms in the city’s history, the staff at New York Magazine was relocated from their downtown offices, which had lost power, to a temporary office in midtown to produce its issue. At 3 p.m. on Tuesday, editor-in-chief Adam Moss called an emergency meeting… Continue reading

Photographer Iwan Baan on How He Shot That Haunting Half-Dark New York City Photo from the Sky – Inhabitat

“I knew I wanted to capture these two cities – one, a vibrant and pulsating Manhattan that we recognize so vividly, and its antonym – a life-less city turned pitch-black and ominous,” writes photographer Iwan Baan about the Hurricane Sandy aftermath photo that everyone has been talking about. The… Continue reading

How the iconic post-Sandy ‘New York’ cover photo was shot – The Verge

Dutch photographer Iwan Baan captured a stunning shot of New York City for the latest cover of New York Magazine, but how exactly did he do it? Speaking to Poynter, Baan described how he rented a helicopter on Wednesday night after the storm hit to try and take a photo that… Continue reading

Architizer Exclusive: How Iwan Baan Got That Phenomenal Aerial Shot Of Sandy-Stricken NYC

Iwan Baan, one of Architizer‘s A+ Award jurors, is always going somewhere. Over the last six years with camera and computer in tow, he has earned the privilege to travel from dense Caracas to abandoned western China to sprawling Los Angeles — all in a week’s work to photograph new buildings and… Continue reading