Beate Bos finds great interest in the essence of the urban landscape and the untold stories of the anonymous inhabitants of the city. She tries to capture these  through the lens of her mobile phone. Absent of human figures, her photographs focus on the traces that people left behind—graffiti, vivid lights, and peeling paint. The apocalyptic atmosphere of her images, printed on poster paper, transforms form into content and vice versa. Bos's work invites viewers to contemplate the untold stories of the city, turning the mundane into the extraordinary.

 

Bos, through her lens, unveils the stories written on the walls of the city. Her method of using a mobile phone and the unedited pictures it takes adds an immediacy to her work, as if she is documenting the city in real-time, capturing the often overlooked details that shape our urban experience. The absence of human figures in her photographs accentuates the traces and remnants left behind, giving her work an eerie, apocalyptic quality.

 

In her installation work the choice of poster paper as a medium brings an additional layer of tactility to the visual narrative. Form and content feed on each other to create a visual poetry that relays the traces we leave behind and speak to the transient nature of urban life.

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She also takes her photography into other media like drawings and paintings, where the abundance of color and contrast plays a vital roll.