








Office
Lars TunbjörkLoose Joints
text by David Graeber
2024
Hardcover book and stapled brochure in a slipcase
Office: 120 pages; LA Office: 32 pages
11.6 x 11.1 in (29.464 x 28.194 cm)
ISBN 978-1-912719-61-7
Tunbjörk's iconic series from the turn of the 21st century delves into the bureaucracy, disorder, and mundanity of office culture with masochistic delight, capturing the soul-sapping environments of corporate spaces with unparalleled insight.
Over five years, Tunbjörk explored offices across Stockholm, New York, and Tokyo, photographing 'like an alien' in the soulless, banal uniformity of these workplaces. He sought to capture that lingering sadness in what he called "the most common – but closed and secretive – place in the Western world." While the winds of change may have transformed the grey dividers into WeWork couches or the clunky dialup PC into a sleek, pocketable touchscreen tablet, Tunbjörk's images capture a contingent sense of ennui and isolation still prescient in an era of bullshit jobs, quiet quitting and working from home.