The hidden or secret space has become a familiar trope of contemporary photography - Taryn Simon’s recent American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, or Ben Murphy’s images of a shabby and echoing UN Building spring to mind.
Richard Ross’s Architecture of Authority is about the banality of power, be it a cubicle farm for petty bureaucrats or the forgotten, stained and crumbling cells of an infamous foreign prison. Along the way, Ross’s camera creates an unsettling architectural history of recent times.
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Architecture of Authority by Richard Ross (Aperture, £22)
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