The photographer Jan Banning was born in 1954 in Almelo, Netherlands, from indonesian parents. From 1981, after having studied history and worked at various jobs, he devotes himself to photography. His work both journalistic and conceptual photographic is published by many newspapers and magazines: De volkskrant (Netherlands), Süddentsche zeitung Magazin (Germany), and the New Yorker (United States). In 2003 he creates his own publishing compagny, Ipso Facto. He is publishing Sporen van Oorlog, which presents twenty-four portraits of men (including his own father) used as slave laborers by the railway compagny in Sumatra during the Second Wold War. There is also his book The Price of Paradise, devoted to the agricultural and rural country of Easter Europe having recently joined the european Union.
It's while doing a report on the administration command Mozambique, in 2002 that Jan Banning has begun to be interested in rituals of bureaucratic power.
Indeed for the photographic project names "Bureaucratic" the Dutch photographer Jan Banning is interested in the bureaucracy of the world. He took pictures of several bureaucrats. An interesting comparative study of systems of bureaucracy. The countries were selected on the basis of political, historical and cultural: Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States and Yemen. In total, 68 were taken. The cultural differences, traditional and behavioral between different nations are sometimes striking.
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