Bureaucracies Around the World
India
Lately, we've brought you some incredibly eye-opening visual stories like what it looks like inside a girl’s bedroom, what inner city 4th graders are thinking and where children fall asleep. Now, we're excited to bring you a rare look into very different looking bureaucracies around the wolrd.
Photographer Jan Banning traveled across countries like India, Bolivia, China, and Liberia to show us what average citizens see when entering a typical government office.
“Bureaucratics is a project consisting of a book and exhibition containing 50 photographs, the product of an anarchist’s heart, a historian’s mind and an artist’s eye. It is a comparative photographic study of the culture, rituals and symbols of state civil administrations and its servants in eight countries on five continents, selected on the basis of political, historical and cultural considerations. Though there is a high degree of humor and absurdity in these photos, they also show compassion with the inhabitants of the state’s paper labyrinth,” Banning shares.
Bolivia
China
France
Liberia
Russia
USA
Yemen
Jan Banning's website
Lately, we've brought you some incredibly eye-opening visual stories like what it looks like inside a girl’s bedroom, what inner city 4th graders are thinking and where children fall asleep. Now, we're excited to bring you a rare look into very different looking bureaucracies around the wolrd.
Photographer Jan Banning traveled across countries like India, Bolivia, China, and Liberia to show us what average citizens see when entering a typical government office.
“Bureaucratics is a project consisting of a book and exhibition containing 50 photographs, the product of an anarchist’s heart, a historian’s mind and an artist’s eye. It is a comparative photographic study of the culture, rituals and symbols of state civil administrations and its servants in eight countries on five continents, selected on the basis of political, historical and cultural considerations. Though there is a high degree of humor and absurdity in these photos, they also show compassion with the inhabitants of the state’s paper labyrinth,” Banning shares.
Bolivia
China
France
Liberia
Russia
USA
Yemen
Jan Banning's website
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Comment by Kathy Russell on April 29, 2011 at 8:30pm - I love the isolation of the subjects from movement and external reality. A tiny glimpse through a door or window is then made all the more exciting. I love to see the paraphernalia that is either important, mandatory or all that is available to represent the gravity of each subjects' duty of office. Great idea too.
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Comment by Kim-Anh Vo on April 26, 2011 at 10:11pm - lively photos :)
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Comment by Hamish Gibson on April 24, 2011 at 2:31pm - Quite interesting. Whilst the photos seems to ignore the factor of these people's lives which might be more physical or active, it does provoke some good questions about the nature of bureaucracy.
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Comment by sAm on April 22, 2011 at 2:42pm - Such a great insight into how the world goes about their everyday business. Thanks for sharing!
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