The Workspace project is an ongoing attempt to examine the quasi-private spaces people carve out of their public work lives. Such spaces represent a tug of war between personal expression and comfort on the one hand and the unyielding demands of work on the other. The long-term accumulation of the tokens of that struggle, over years or even decades, can be formally beautiful in a very human and touching way. The project is part of a larger series by Joseph O. Holmes, in which he asks friends and strangers to open up private spaces to his camera.

Because he documents a space exactly as he finds it, never arranged for the camera, the Workspace project is necessarily a spontaneous process.

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