Museum MORE, Gorssel

January 5, 2023

Bas Losekoot, Streetview

"As a symbol and ultimate realization of all our qualities and weaknesses, the metropolis is our habitat. Nowhere are we more human than as humans among humans. Anyone who wants to understand anything about us only has to read our faces in this hellish heaven or heavenly hell we have created for ourselves."
Ilja Leonard Pfeiffer about Bas Losekoot's exhibition.

Bas Losekoot (1979) grew up with photography.  His father was a scientific photographer so from his early age he had access to several cameras. Through the photography club at high school he progressed to the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague.
Later he specialized in making stills and the effect of light directed on moving subjects which is the basis for the work that we can admire here in the exhibition.

Between 2011 and 2018 Bas Losekoot (1979) photographed urban life in most densely populated cities of the world: New York, São Paulo, Seoul, Mumbai, Hong Kong, London, Lagos, Istanbul and Mexico City. His images of true reality made me sometimes feel  emotional and sometimes exited. This is human life. It shows not only every day street life, but also a daring bold approach to passers-by with an extreme professional technique at the same time.
His technique is taken far and wide using a mix of natural and artificial light: he did not hesitate to attach remote flash somewhere on the street.
I admired the expression on the faces: surprised, concentrated or just seeing "nothing", on the road to work or just interacting with a stranger opposite passing by. Also take a look at the picture where 2 women are sharp, but in the background, behind a few man (unsharp) in the foreground.