Iwan Baan Architectural Photography & Bush in Mongolia

Iwan Baan the influential Dutch photographer has over the last couple of years been documenting the construction of both OMA's CCTV building and Herzog & de Meuron's birds nest. His background in documentary photography is apparent in the work. In his photographs he considers the relationship between the building and it's surroundings and many times the architecture becomes just the backdrop in the photograph. His photographs from the CCTV building shows the workers living on the site and ordinary families living in the shadow of these monumental building. See for more ...