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Paul Shambroom

Shambroom seems to have an interest is the unconventional subcultures of America. His photos of corporate spaces ("Cube Culture"), Nuclear weapons facilities, local meetings and security training facilities are normal photographically, but when look at for their content leave the viewer realizing that something was happening right under their nose. The fact that these places appear so normal in their own context and yet so abnormal in everyday society is intriguing, as well as is the fact that most of these places could be right around the corner from your mother's house.

Although the other series were interesting to me for their content, I found my interest lying in the office photography. Many people have done photos of office "cube culture", as he called it, but few have done it from the vantage points that he did. I'm intrigued by his drive to push away from the average deadpan aesthetic, at least with this one series, and curious to see if I can break my own self-made machine of aesthics.