Jul 23, 2014 6:30 AM

Gallery: Photos Poke Fun at the Rules You Blindly Follow Every Day

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In 'Ready, Steady, Go,' photographer Frauke Thielking portrays people mimicking the various patterns that shape society, like cars in traffic in this case.
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"Directions." Each photo in 'Ready, Steady, Go," is half of a diptych, a pair of complementary images. One shows the people acting out a societal system, the other an architectural image that compliments the staged photo in color and form.

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Windmills for energy.
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"Buoyancy"

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People bending over like tractors, an image that comments on the vast system of manufacturing that shapes all of our lives.
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"Regrouping"

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Thielking generally didn't venture farm from home to make the photos, but some came about by chance while she was traveling. Like this one, with people crawling around like ants, which was inspired by the traffic pattern in the next photo which she spotted on a trip through China.
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"Reorientation"

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These people are lined up in a manner that suggests how we orient ourselves to one another in space.
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"Spaces"

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Despite the somewhat heavy topic, the photos reflect a sense of humor, like this one in which people rather ridiculously mimic runner's hurdles.
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"Immovability"

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