My work begins with attention.
To people, to the natural world, and to the small gestures.

Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland ·
Available for commissions & collaboration

Jocelyn
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|> Photographer, researcher and lecturer working at the intersection of speculative image-making, archival inquiry, and collective authorship.

Photographer, researcher, and lecturer based in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland |> working at the intersection of speculative image-making, archival inquiry, and collective authorship.

selected photography

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My practice treats photography as an evolving, investigative process. I work with fictionalism, archival research, and embodied methods to unsettle dominant visual narratives and open new ways of seeing.

God-House Collaboration, part of Jahra Wasasala's dance embodiment of 'GOD-HOUSE', which premiered live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

INTERDEPENDENCE

God-House

Collaboration, part of Jahra Wasasala's dance embodiment of 'GOD-HOUSE', which premiered live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A sprouted sweet potato with purple sprouts and small green leaves emerging from it, floating against a plain light gray background.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Tinaku

The sprouting kūmara as a metaphor for the revitalisation of Te Ao Māori and Te Reo Māori.
resistance [ātete] Auckland Festival of Photography.

A vintage black and white photograph of a young man and woman dressed in formal attire, standing side by side in front of a patterned curtain.

RESEARCH PROJECT

Lucent

Portraits and luminograms: speculative reconstruction of archival photographs through light and material intervention.

OBSERVATIONAL

Portraits

recent blog/writing

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I write about how images shape identity and memory, using fictionalism, constraints, and vernacular archives to question photographic truth and the stories we inherit.