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.
TOPOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPH
The Topographic Photograph is an image-making method
that treats logistics not as a spectacle, but as a system. It adopts tools of
mapping and recording, though with results that are less precise. The process
exposes gaps, disruptions, and contradictions within a landscape designed to
appear seamless.
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