Iwan Baan: A Photographer of Lived Architecture Early Life and Education Iwan Baan, a Dutch photographer born in 1975 in Alkmaar, Netherlands, developed his passion for photography at the age of twelve when he received his first camera as a gift from his grandmother. Growing up outside Amsterdam, Baan’s early experiences shaped his later focus on the interplay between people and their environments. He formally studied at the Royal Aca…