The Boss of You

There’s plenty going on behind the scenes here both with our book project (news soon we promise) and with that thing called work. So while we’re feel­ing a bit too run off our feet — or per­haps more appro­pri­ately glued to our chairs — to dis­pense too much in the way of sage advice, I did have a lit­tle thought about shar­ing some work­place images over the holidays.

It hap­pened like this: I was flip­ping through the lat­est Dwell mag­a­zine which was in our liv­in­groom and noticed they had a piece on home offices. Being a small busi­ness gal, I’m mighty famil­iar with the home office even though we now have an offi­cial out-of-the-corner-of-the-bedroom address, and so my inter­est was piqued. Of course I should have known that they weren’t going to actu­ally show any­one at work, the spread showed highly per­fect, clean, mod­u­lar home offices. Per­fect for the Dwell set of course (and I count myself amongst them) but the lack of any vis­i­ble work in the pho­tos left me totally unin­spired. So. The mind ticked along, and run­ning with the them of Self Por­trait Tues­days at Flickr and Work In Progress/Studio shots I’ve also seen over there, I thought I’d start a group for women to share pho­tos of their actual work­space. I have chris­tened it the highly allit­er­a­tive: Women’s Work­place Wednes­days!

I’ve included the group descrip­tion from Flickr below, as well as the inau­gural photo (above). The photo, appro­pri­ately enough, is what is con­stantly in my periph­eral vision at work all day: the white­boards. These orga­nize our clients, our to do lists and our time, and some­times they are known as: the White­boads of Doom.

So, if you’re at work and it’s Wednes­day (and today it is!), take a photo and join the group, or you know do the same thing next Wednes­day, or heck plun­der your archives for past pho­tos snapped at work. Even­tu­ally we’ll build up a gallery of what women’s work really looks like.

There are lots of pub­lic groups already about women at work, but this group was started specif­i­cally for pho­tos of women run busi­nesses taken by the women who run them. Pho­tos don’t need to be glam­orous, and feel free to take inspi­ra­tion from dif­fer­ent areas of your work day and life. Self por­traits, still-life with key­board or shots of your store/studio/officespace are all welcome.

There are also other groups already like stu­dio self-portraits and such that would cer­tainly qual­ify for join­ing this group if in fact you are a women, and your stu­dio is your work ;)

Please limit this to no more than 3 post­ing per week.