[Editor's note: While your editors take the day off, Flavorwire will be counting down some of our most popular features of 2011 so far. This post originally ran on April 7th. Enjoy your Memorial Day!] Dutch documentary photographer Jan Banning’s Bureaucratics series takes you behind the red tape of China, Russia, India, Bolivia, France, Yemen, and US. Like stills from an Ulrich Seidl film, these enlightening, compelling and at times almost absurd portraits humanize those who push the papers and police order. Meet them and read their stories — toils, system flaws, and all — from a lone police officer of a Siberian town raising a determined eyebrow in a cold, dreary office to a dutiful security general in a prim, Chinese flag-adorned bureau to a Liberian county commissioner who manages a poverty-stricken region from a bare room on zero funds.
Bihar, India. Sushma Prasad (b. 1962) is an assistant clerk at the Cabinet Secretary of the State of Bihar (population 83 million) in The Old Secretariat in the state capital, Patna. She was hired “on compassionate grounds” because of the death of her husband, who until 1997 worked in the same department. Monthly salary: 5,000 rupees ($110, euro 100). Image and text courtesy Jan Banning.
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[...] Desk jobs around the world. [...]
About as rewarding as working for Huffington Post. Or Flavorpill. How much do they pay you for writing for them?
uhhh… this guy get paid 220k euro a month? methinks a typo
oh this is so good!!! look at the photos of dogs in the French office. Desk jobs – and people – are the same everywhere. Thanks a lot, enjoyed it!!!
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He is kinda hot. :)
@wishiwerthisguy – $220 US dollars or 200 euro.
@wishiwerthisguy, & Syrax: 3100RMB doesn’t translate to 200K euro, must be a typo. Done a convert right now, it’s about 329.05euro, or 473.86 US dollar.
[...] is pretty amazing– a Photographic World Tour of Desk Jobs. the differences between them [not to mention the salaries] are stunning. that first photo in India [...]
Yes, very interesting. The potential for interior design is HUGE. Especially the inspector’s office in India. Love the textiles and wall color.
Damn, that guy Qu Shao Feng has electronics on his desk worth a year of his salary!
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Is there a typo on the work schedule of Wang Ning from China? How can she possibly work from 8:30am to 12am (i.e. midnight) AND from 14 to 16am?? 14 and 16 are used only for pm
$2000 is about right.
[...] Documentary photographer Jan Banning visited hundreds of desk workers in Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen, unannounced, to see their day-to-day working conditions. The result is an amazing collection of photos and stories about the workers and their lives. Amazing what you can learn from someone’s desk. via Flavorwire [...]
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