Office reflections

Office life reflected through windows.

I work part-time in a corporate office that has some windows with mirrored glass. These windows reflect the internal office space and the street outside, creating a double effect that changes depending on the weather and the time of day. I find sunsets or dark, cloudy days the most effective for getting this double reaction.

I often wonder how someone looking in from the outside would perceive our daily slow manoeuvres. These photographs illuminate the professed mundanity of office life in contrast to my propensity to daydream as I look through windows on the world outside.

I captured and edited these photographs using an iPhone 4s.

This series was part the Format International Photography Festival in 2013.

Conlon emphasizes the banality of her subjects’ condition by photographing them as reflections in the office window. The result is a visually and conceptually loaded double image of an outside and an inside world. The workers appear trapped, longing to be elsewhere, outside.

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Review of my Office Reflections in Photomonitor who are a working partnership with the Photography Department and bookRoom at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, where a team of academic creatives are in residence at Photomonitor.

I'm so grateful to Mazars for their sponsorship to frame my nine photographs exhibited at the FORMAT 13 and International Photography Festival in Derby, UK and for supporting me throughout this project when I really should have been working.