NOWHERE, Imagining the Global City (2021) pp 361, images 241

NOWHERE, Imagining the Global City (2021)361 pages, 241 full-colour images, all photo works from 1995-2020. Co-published by Hartmann Books (DE) and Paradox (NL). Graphic Design by Irma Boom, with texts by Urs Stahel, Aaron Betsky, Shumon Basar
This new monograph shows a world in which Instagrammability seems to rule; in which the reality is dictated by the seductive image that may (later) be made of it. Global big business mechanisms direct architecture, design and urban landscape. The same antiseptic beauty, all over the world.

The book collects my work of the past 25 years. The image of a consumer-oriented, imaginary metropolis rises from this book, designed by Irma Boom. Images - sometimes upside down - question each other about the reality they represent. Together, they form the image of a city that suddenly seems to be simultaneously everywhere and nowhere, yet: here now.

Textual contributions by Shumon Basar, Aaron Betsky and Urs Stahel, link my work to the world of design, architecture, urban development, art and philosophy. The book is published in three different cover/banderol combinations. The book includes all of my works from the past 25 years, either large-scale or small scale in a chronological overview. This overview is printed on the glossy side of the fold-out pages.