Joseph Holmes on the Workspace project, an attempt to capture the private spaces people carve out in public:
Such spaces represent a tug of war between personal expression and comfort on the one hand and the unyielding demands of work on the other. …. Lately I’ve been finding workspaces by walking in off the street with camera and tripod and simply asking (though “simply asking” doesn’t quite convey the complex dance of explanation, skepticism, persuasion, and fascination that goes back and forth). What I end up capturing, then, turns out to be the work that was interrupted to answer the door.
I’ve been a long-time admirer of his ability to capture the public/private dichotomy, particularly his work at the AMNH in New York. (More here.)
