Office reflections
Office life reflected through windows.
I work part-time in a corporate office, where some of the windows have mirrored glass. In a particular light, the windows take on a life of their own. They reflect back the internal office space and the street outside, sometimes with equal measure. The effect changes depending on the weather and the time of day. Sunsets or dark cloudy days are the most effective for getting that double reaction.
I wondered how someone peering in from the outside might 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.
All images were taken and edited on an iPhone 4s.
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.
I'm so grateful to Mazars Ireland for their generous sponsorship for framing my nine images to exibit at FORMAT International Photography Festival and for supporting me throughout this project when I really should have been working.
Giving a talk during the RUA Annual Exhibition in 2013
Talking about my two photographs which were exhibiting at the Ulster Museum
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Because I can get more done
Drawn to the sky
It's nearly time
Sure I'll just straighten it here
What's it doing out there
The photo shoot
It's just lashing
I should really archive that
Waiting for something to happen
What was I doing again?
You work while I play
It's getting dark now
Fire drill
Let me fix your tie
