The horses

The Horses - Gareth McConnell's new book, The Horses, is a fascinating combination of a sober title and kaleidoscopic content, which manages to be imbued with meaning and mystery, despite containing virtually no text. \n \nIn 2022, McConnell turned his camera on that most misunderstood of subjects, the horse, and produced a provocative collection of photographs that somehow seem to make the horse even more remarkable and mysterious than before. \n \nMcConnell traveled to Iceland, a country where the horse is as symbolic of the national landscape as waterfalls or glaciers. The photographs of the horses were taken outdoors and indoors, and with flashes of vivid color, McConnell manages to convey the disparate characters of these animals—or at least come as close as possible to them. The work is wild, expressive, restful, and powerful, perfectly reflecting the variety of the animals. It is clear that McConnell was guided by the horses in the way he depicted them, rather than the other way around. \n \nThe story unfolds without text, the large format images saturated with colors draw you into the intimate world of these horses, without ever being invasive, always sensitive.