Marwan Bassiouni: New Dutch Views
Marwan Bassiouni, New Dutch Views #2 The Netherlands 2018, from the series New Dutch views (2018-1019) Archival pigment print, 165 x 125 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Courtesy of the artist.
During a period of two years (2018-2019), Marwan Bassiouni travelled across the Netherlands and photographed the country’s landscape form inside the Dutch mosques. Bassiouni physically visited more than seventy mosques to produce a total of 30 New Dutch Views. All his photographs are composites and representations of actual Dutch mosque interiors with their views on the local landscape. Each mosque is depicted in its actual surroundings. He presents his series as large-scale photographic prints in the monographic photobook: New Dutch Views.
Marwan Bassiouni is an artist and photographer. He holds a BA in Photography from The Royal Academy of Art and a Photographer CFC from the Photography School of Vevey. His work has been written about in the British Journal of Photography, EXIT Imagen Y cultura, Lens culture, Aperture and various national newspapers. In 2019, Marwan had his first solo exhibition at the Hague Museum of Photography and published his first photo book New Dutch Views. His work has been shown at venues such as Aperture, Paris Photo, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Unseen Photofair, Athens Photo Festival, The Humanity House , Le Prix Bayeux Calvados and Cultuurhuis De Warande. Marwan is the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Student Grant, the Harry Pennings Prize and several other awards and nominations.