The Bureau of Operational Landscapes examines sites that shape our lives but remain overlooked: places like ports, extraction zones, and agro-industrial complexes. Using landscape photography as its starting point, The Bureau initiates overlooks, tours, and site-specific encounters to engage the public with operational spaces.
Our mission is to assist the public to read the land and expand its narratives, intervening in the official story. The Bureau invites a closer relationship to the infrastructures that surrounds us, revealing their impact on our environment and daily lives.
BUREAUCRATIC VISION
Logistical landscapes exist to grease the flow of
capital, not to be observed. Their scale makes them nearly impossible to
ignore, yet access is restricted, and perspectives are controlled.
Bureaucratic
Vision is the official gaze of logistics—an image of efficiency, inevitability,
and control, carefully framed to manage perception and maintain distance. It
presents a seamless operation while concealing the labour, infrastructures, and
systems that sustain it.