“When I photograph, I try to imagine that I have never seen a place like this before.”
 
A leading figure in contemporary Swedish photography, Lars Tunbjörk approached society's absurdities with irony, magnifying the mundane and revealing modern life's surreal qualities. In Office, he creates a bleak world where people serve their penance through marathon working days. His seemingly extraterrestrial eye yields extraordinary discoveries, catching mysteries that more conventional photographers might overlook. Viewers move through carpets and coffee tables until the questions strike: why is that man crouching beneath his desk, wedged between a wall and a turquoise chair? Why is a live moose standing in the corner cubicle, watching businesspeople return to their desks with lunch trays?
 
For attentive viewers, these alien enigmas make the comedy of Office irresistible. For casual viewers, it is easy to miss the moose.