A Manual Anomaly

A Manual Anomaly is a photographic installation that reflects on a moment in transit; moving between jobs, corporate expectations and understanding how to perform a job. After not looking at my photo archive for over ten years I started writing about the images. The writing became a research on moments between people that aren’t being verbalised, but instead, is being noticed. What is our relation between each other and the expected norm on how to behave? 

This installation focusses on one chapter; a migration made possible by an outsourcing economy, where nationality determined what job I could get, and who I could be there. The photo installation became a research into how photography was used to construct meaning when meaning felt uncertain. How to move between vulnerability and self-preservation while also being confronted with the dominance of the medium photography itself. My gaze was a confrontation with a reality that didn’t exist on the fourteenth floor of the high rise building where I worked. Far from the actual city itself I was living in. Together with my colleagues we shared stories about where we wanted to be. It brought us and the place we were in closer together. And at the same time, reduced the need to engage with the actual place itself. The growing imagination towards the place I was in made the alienation the hardest to name.