A Sense of Place

Photographer Harry Gruyaert (b. 1941) invites us on a sweeping urban journey. Whether he takes us to Brussels, Antwerp, Tokyo, New York, Paris, Ouarzazate, Old Delhi, or Moscow does not really matter. What drives the shutter release is not so much the subject, but the way it presents itself to the photographer’s eye: intense, pulsating colours, sharp outlines of shadow, and urban geometries that punctuate space like a jazz phrase—call and response. Gruyaert’s magnetic music plays out on the street, where vibrations and emotions converse.