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Lars Tunbjörk documented the rise of alienating office work
Lars Tunbjörk documented the rise of alienating online work. His images should remind us that it didn’t have to be this way.
Around the same time that Judge was making his movie, the Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk was documenting remarkably dreary corporate spaces in New York, Tokyo, and Stockholm. In another photo, Tunbjörk portrays stark isolation: a woman stands alone on an empty floor, the lines of filing cabinets and overhead lights converging to a distant vanishing point. He began his fine-arts career shooting in black-and-white, in the style of the Swedish master Christer Strömholm, but later switched to color, drawing inspiration from vivid, large-format scenes of everyday life by American photographers such as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston.
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