Season’s photographer Bas Losekoot
Combining documentary photography with cinematographic lighting, Dutch photographer Bas Losekoot (1979) focusses on the little stories playing out in the public domain of big cities. With an intuitive eye, he captures the urban atmosphere of the world’s busiest places. For his Out of Place project, he has spent the past ten years documenting the increasing urbanisation and ever-denser population of cities such as New York, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Mumbai, Hong Kong, London, Lagos, Istanbul and Mexico City and the resulting consequences. This project reveals how people relate to their city, to each other and, above all, to themselves. Especially for the Concertgebouw's 22-23 season, he has deviated slightly from that metropolitan trajectory to take a series of photos of Bruges from the same perspective.
Bas Losekoot studied photography, cinematography and sociology in The Hague, Amsterdam and London. His photos have appeared in leading publications such as The New Yorker, CNN Editions, The Guardian, IMA Magazine, de Volkskrant and The British Journal of Photography. His work has been exhibited at Bozar, Seelevel Gallery, New York Photo Festival, Voies-Off/Les Rencontres d'Arles, Fotofestival Naarden, Noorderlicht, Focus Festival Mumbai, FotoIstanbul, LagosPhoto and Unseen Amsterdam.
For three days Bas Losekoot turned his lens on the centre of Bruges. He began his exploration each day at the Concertgebouw, as the gateway to the city. He investigated the dynamics of Bruges street life and the diversity of its residents, paying particular attention to body language, glances and the literal and figurative distance between people. During his walks, he was driven by the idea that we are all carrying around some big secret that we try to conceal in the public domain. That daily masquerade is therefore all about camouflaging our fears and desires. Using daylight combined with flash, he captured the city in a surprising way. In the following series, the results will be interspersed with photos from his long-term project Out of Place.
On the programme
- 03 SEP 2022 — Neske Beks, Kris Defoort & Bas Losekoot
- 03 SEP 2022 - 08 NOV 2022 — Exhibition Bas Losekoot