Steven Ahlgren’s Photos Capture the Beauty and Banality of the Office

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The photographer discusses his new book, which takes inspiration from Edward Hopper’s 1940 painting, Office at Night.

captures the quiet drama and mundane magic of office life with a distinctive sense of ambiguity. Photographing inside American offices during the 1990s and 2000s, Ahlgren sees beauty in the everyday, quotidian moments of life.

At the same time, Ahlgren was becoming more involved in photography and eventually left the bank – but the office kept calling him back. The hardest part was securing permission; but once he was in, Ahlgren was ready to create his own ambiguous narratives that leave space for the viewers, just as Hopper did.

Ahlgren points to another photograph made in a bank, where two women are sitting in a boardroom surrounded by men – actual men at the conference table and men in portraits hung in row after row on the wall being them. For Ahlgren, the photograph speaks to what the women in his family experience working in male-dominated industries.

 

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