The Bureau of Operational Landscapes is a roving research and interpretive unit that investigates infrastructural and industrial sites through landscape photography, fieldwork, and public engagement. Founded in 2024, it focuses on the kinds of places that shape everyday life while remaining largely overlooked — zones of circulation, extraction, and control, such as ports, pipelines, and rail corridors— using artistic methods to intervene, interpret, and occasionally illuminate.
Its mission is to provoke new ways of reading the land and to complicate its official story. The Bureau stages encounters with the infrastructures that organize daily life, surfacing their unofficial narratives and everyday effects.