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Emilia Cocking ‘The Office’ ‘The Office’ looks to examine the vernacular backdrop to everyday working environments within the UK. With the many of us spending most of our daily lives within the workplace, these spaces play a vital role in the social and cultural outcome of human interaction and routine. Often used as a setting to contain fleeting communication between co-workers, the architectural interiors depicted within the photographs offer no distinctive characteristics – only neutral walls and stark fluorescent lighting can be found here. Through these images, a direct reflection can be drawn between the lack of genuine identity in common workspaces and the cultural context to which they belong.  www.emiliacocking.com