Photos of 90s offices show how much, and how little, has changed:
, who often captured the office environment, that “made me think perhaps something could be done,” he adds. What started as a side-job would soon become the images that formed Steven’s thesis. He continued working on them post-graduation, attending networking events, and photographing the people there.
Shot in the buildings of insurance and loan companies, law firms and online magazines in Virginia, Massachusetts and Silicon Valley, the pictures were all taken betweenand 2001. Featuring white boards, heavy desktop computers and metal filing cabinets, there’s little to differentiate between the types of work going on. Similarly, the people occupying each frame are largely white men dressed in shirts and ties.
“There weren’t a lot of differences at all,” Steven says. “Sometimes a space was more luxurious, but beyond that the scene was all pretty much the exact same: people with phones and computers, and in meetings. All of it was typically lit by windows and overhead fluorescent light. Maybe the computer monitors got a little sleeker and the office fashion changed, but really not that much.”
The project concluded in 2001 as Steven’s interest faded in tandem with the arrival of his children and a change in lifestyle. “Looking at the pictures now, I still like many of them. A few even evoke the same feeling I got from the Hopper painting,” he says. While he never explicitly sought to capture his likeness in the series, one photograph of a young man making photocopies remains particularly familiar. “I’m sure I looked exactly like that, lost and questioning why I was still at the bank.
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