This book is an homage to a place of work, its peculiar culture, its surroundings and most of all, to the people who spent the majority of their waking hours contributing to the company’s bottom line.

Over the time of shooting, editing and pacing the photographs in this book they began to form a poetic inventory of what is left behind after moving to new offices and before it is all forgotten.

Pyramids of boxes, corridors echoing with silence, invisible occupants seated in empty chairs, conference rooms once humming with air-condition and voices, sleek, modern furniture now old and discarded in remote corners, shelves full of emptiness, unexpected islands of color in a sea of
corporate beige.

Joerg Metzner