Bankrupt OOP and Rene Magritte

and Rene Magritte

"Tribe of One

include Antonin Artaud

If any one of us could have seen how attractive we really were we might have made something better of our lives

Bankrupt OOP and Rene MagritteAt the beginning of 2001, I began taking pictures of recently abandoned offices, and the things people had left behind. This project was more than photography for me. It was economic archeology. America has not suffered such a vertiginous economic collapse since the 1930s, and I wanted to document the human cost, while it was happening. There is something very strange about walking into a recently abandoned office. The heavy, Pompeii like stillness,