City Lust

City Lust is a timely dialogue between words and images about a crucial moment in our recent history: the apotheosis of globalisation and its current unraveling. In this book, Charlie Koolhaas — artist, photographer, and writer — takes us to London, Guangzhou, Lagos, Dubai, and Houston, cities in which she has either lived or worked. Her personal and humorous account explores the rapid changes taking place in these culturally vastly different metropolises that are being united by the influences of global trade and the evolution of a shared global culture. A captivating combination of photographic documentary and written testimony, City Lust portrays a global landscape that contradicts the current pessimism — to reveal unexpected creativities, connections, and collective references that emerge despite huge global and economic divides. For more go to: www.charliekoolhaas.com

Charlie Koolhaas was born in London and graduated in sociology from New York University and in Interactive Media from Goldsmith’s, University of London. She currently lives and works as an artist, photographer, and writer in Rotterdam. She is the author of several books, including Metabolism (2012) Trip and What Happened in Rotterdam (2017) and City Lust (2020), that all tell stories using a combination of photography and writing. Charlie Koolhaas has exhibited her artworks in Japan, Poland, Dubai, Bosnia, Italy, China, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, UK and the US including in The Venice Biennale, Italy, Get it Louder, China and TENT, Netherlands. She has taught visual culture theory at TU Delft and Sandberg Instituut in the Netherlands, and has been a visiting lecturer at Strelka Institute in Moscow, ETH Zurich, HEAD Geneva, and Harvard Graduate School of Design.