I stumbled upon Banning's work, and found interest in his work more specifically the Bureaucratics series. He traveled the world photographing the space of different office workers and brings into question the norms we expect when we think of office work and officials. He visited executives of all different kinds of services and was accompanied by a writer so that the subjects would be distracted from any attempts to tidy up their desk, giving the audience the most pure vision of was an average person walking into that office would come across. Of his series, he discusses how these desks can be viewed as a kind of barrier between the bureaucrats and the audience but despite this wall he comments on how these images "show compassion with the inhabitants of the state’s paper labyrinth." We feel disconnected from this kind of work and often time bureaucrats are viewed as being apart of 'the Man' and thus negative but the chaos and overwhelming amount of work visible or visible conditions makes us sympathize as a viewer.
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