Light and Lens, 2nd Edition

A2.0 “The subject of People at Work is the double nature of labor at all levels of the social hierarchy—a round of tasks, often with no satisfying meaning, and a field for the exercise of aptitudes. By compositing digital photographs that compact the varied tasks of individual workers into a single frame, I seek to communicate simultaneously the frenzied tedium of a wide variety of occupations and the intensity of effort that people put into them. The color images come about through a practice of taking photographs with a 4 × 5-inch camera of individuals whom I direct to perform the tasks associated with their jobs, at their workplaces. I scan ...