Framing the information age

Maurice Broomfield is a 94-year-old photographer who has documented examples of 20th century industry. His lifelong work is about to be shown at two exhibitions in the UK, as detailed in an interview with the Financial Times. It made me wonder whether anyone is doing the equivalent for telecom and datacom? Mega data centres as IT cathedrals?

When writing features for FibreSystems Europe, I repeatedly asked for high-resolution striking images. The magazine's editors always wanted photos that included people, like Maurice Broomfield's photos.  Getting hold of such images did happen but not often.

Inspired by the Financial Times’ interview and Maurice Broomfield's beautiful images, some of the better images sent are presented here.

IBM data centre

I’m on the look-out for more. So if you are the media relations for an operator, equipment maker, optical transceiver or component (optical or IC) vendor, can I please request some inspiring photos - ideally with people - and I'll create a photo gallery of the best.

Network Operations Centre (NOC) Source: AT&T

Source: Cisco Systems

 An Intel silicon photonics device

And here is an image of Tokyo's data centre on Flickr