Bas Losekoot

Biography
1979 -

About the artist

Bas Losekoot (1979, Amsterdam) is a Dutch artist and photographer. In 2001, he received his Bachelor of Photography at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (Royal Academy of Fine Arts), The Hague. Afterwards, he studied Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he graduated in 2014. He was also trained by Alessandra Sanguinetti and Alex Webb at Magnum Agency (in New York and Sevilla, Spain).

Losekoot is a streetlife, portrait and documentary photographer. In 2011, he started a worldwide visual exploration into the effects of growing population density on citizens inhabiting eight crowded megacities, entitled The Urban Millennium Project. It was published in a number of international media like The New Yorker, Die Zeit, De Volkskrant, CNN Editions, GUP, IMA Magazine, and the British Journal of Photography. Losekoot had numerous exhibitions, for instance: Boeroes, Silver Camera, The Hague Museum of Photography, 2011; Portrait Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Politiek Kunstbezit, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2012; New York and the Urban Millennium, Yip Art, Christie’s, Amsterdam, 2015; Familiar Strangers, BOZAR, Centre of Fine Arts, Brussels, 2016; Private life/Public space (group exhibition), Seelevel Gallery, Amsterdam, 2016; Lagos and the Urban Millennium, the Niele Insitute, Nigeria, 2016.

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