Artist Blog
Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.
The Making of Joyce
Jul 02, 2015 - Juno Calypso
Hello I’m Juno Calypso. For the last four years I’ve been taking pictures of myself as a character named Joyce. I began in my Mum’s living room, where I staged a birthday party and jumped out of a giant cake. Since then I’ve been taking photographs of Joyce wherever I can. My grandmas house in Malta, an ex boyfriends parent’s bedroom, private rooms found on Airbnb, and my most recent and most awkward – a Honeymoon Hotel in Pennsylvania. From the beginning I’ve always filmed myself while taking these pictures. When you’re alone there’s no one to tell you which angle looks good so instead I have to film myself writhing around for five minutes and see what comes out. After three years I realised that alongside producing photographs, I had also accumulated hours of slightly embarrassing footage. Last year I took my favourite bits and put them all together into a film called ‘The Making of Joyce’.
I hope you enjoy. Juno x Juno Calypso: Artist of the Day Thursday 2nd July, 11am – 7pm Flowers Gallery, London W1S 3LZ Juno Calypso in conversation with Tom Hunter Thursday 2nd July at 4pm rsvp@flowersgallery.com Solo show: Thursday 2nd July Group show: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th July.