Offices

I would like to picture people in the place where they spend much of their day: at work. In office buildings I want to photograph the personnel in the rigidly designed work environment. In these sterile work spaces, however, each person still expresses their individuality. They add something personal to the austere furniture, as a result of which each photo will tell its own story.

I want to point my lens at the ordinary – the office carpet, the corner desk, the spaghetti mass of wires, unoccupied chairs, socked feet, waste paper baskets and overflowing cabinets. I want to get in close and to reveal telling details that are all too familiar to us, such as the dusty grey polish of an office swivel chair, the file upon file of bureaucratic papers, the chaotic and messy cubes as well as the tidy ones, but each details revealing the personality of everyone …

In each photograph I want to look for a balance between humour and sarcasm, a human factor that is at odds with the strict organisation of the work. My aim is for the pictures to be between documentary and fine art with a personal point of view on objects and people. With this work I don’t want to try to explain everything but I want to leave an aperture on what everyone wants to see and understand in the picture.