03 Northline Tax Studio Book
Index

03 · Gallery

Eight photographs, in the order the work runs

Four parts, eight plates: the documents that arrive, the arithmetic done on them, the room where that happens, and the signed return that leaves. Each caption says what is in the frame and why it is worth looking at.

01 — Documents

What arrives, and how it is kept.

The edge of a ruled ledger page with a stepped alphabetical index tab running from P to Z down the right side.
A ruled ledger page, its stepped index tabs running alphabetically down the outer edge so a single account can be found by touch rather than by reading every heading in turn.
Labelled archive boxes packed along two levels of green metal repository shelving, each box tagged with a reference card.
Archive boxes on two levels of green repository shelving, each tagged with its own reference card. Paper filing still works this way: the label on the outside is what makes the contents findable.
A handwritten ledger page, quantities and rates in one column and extended amounts in the next, with a running total carried at the head.
A ledger page written out by hand, quantity and rate in one column and the extended amount in the next, with the balance carried at the head. Every figure on the sheet can be checked against the one beside it.

02 — Process

How a figure is arrived at.

The keyboard of a mechanical calculator in close view, its rows of red, cream and black number keys filling the frame.
The keyboard of a mechanical calculator, its rows of red, cream and black keys set out so a figure is entered column by column. Arithmetic done in an order that can be repeated.

03 — Workspace

The light the checking is done in.

A close view of open venetian blinds, the horizontal slats casting parallel bands of light and shadow.
Venetian blinds half open, the slats throwing parallel bands of light and shadow across the room. Even light and a plain surface are what a desk needs when figures are being checked.

04 — Handoff

The last look over a return, the signature, and the address it goes to.

An articulated metal desk lamp with a spun shade, photographed against a plain pale wall.
An articulated desk lamp with a spun metal shade, set against a plain pale wall. The arm holds a fixed angle, so the light falls on the same part of the page each time.
A red fountain pen lying horizontally on a plain white surface, the barrel and section shown end to end.
A fountain pen laid end to end on white, barrel and section shown whole. A finished return is signed before it leaves, and the signature is the point at which it becomes yours.
A modernist office block seen from below, its concrete grid of identical windows running the length of the facade.
A modernist office block seen from below, one window bay repeated the whole length of the elevation. The building is the kind of address a small practice keeps a single upper floor in.

04 · Contact

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