"Gareth McConnell doesn't see things like everyone else. He sees the world in technicolour, as his photographs of wild horses illuminated in neon light and his psychedelic flower arrangements attest. His take on street photography is equally vivid. In his new photo book, Window, published by Sorika, McConnell brings together beautifully grainy crops of scenes from his bedroom window in east London - a supermarket carpark, a funeral car passing by, strangers going about their day."
"Throughout the book's diptychs, McConnell documents his lively and diverse local community, assigning an almost religious significance to the situations he perceives from his vantage point. Among the portraits are interstitial images, heavy with symbolism. An aeroplane suspended in the London sky might suggest the firmament or the blue yonder, while shots of sunlit streets, rainbows and streetlights are otherworldly and, at times, mystical."
Gareth McConnell photographs scenes from his bedroom window in east London, producing grainy, cropped diptychs of supermarket carparks, funeral cars, passersby and domestic moments. His palette ranges from neon-lit wild horses and psychedelic floral arrangements to muted, grainy street vignettes. Kern's Lower East Side apartment-window practice influenced his vantage-point approach, while references extend to painters such as Hogarth, Bruegel and Caravaggio. McConnell assigns near-religious significance to quotidian events, using iconography and symbolism — an aeroplane as firmament, crucifix-like posed figures, undertakers as spirit guides — to render ordinary encounters otherworldly and mystical.
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