My work begins with attention.
To people, to the natural world, and to the small gestures.
Jocelyn
Janon
Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland · Available for commissions & collaboration
|> Photographer, researcher and lecturer working at the intersection of speculative image-making, archival inquiry, and collective authorship.
Selected Photography
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|> RESEARCH PROJECT
LUCENT
Speculative reconstruction of archival photographs through light and material intervention.
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|> INTERDEPENDENT WORK
GOD-HOUSE
Collaboration, part of Jahra Wasasala's dance embodiment of 'GOD-HOUSE', which premiered live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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|> FIELD WORK
VISUAL STORIES
Images, taking shape in the small gap between looking and feeling.
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![TINAKU The sprouting kūmara as a metaphor for the revitalisation of Te Ao Māori and Te Reo Māori. resistance [ātete] Auckland Festival of Photography.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63424af10dfba41737be0a7b/d51e9633-b4cb-4f43-81d9-43e83269ddd5/1_2023_asset__JJN8604_Nik_DxO_DxO-Edit.jpg)
|> PHOTOGRAPHY — AUCKLAND FESTIVAL OF 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.
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|> PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH
TAUIWI
The series draws on autoethnography, using my own experience of immigration and belonging.
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My practice treats photography as an evolving and investigative process.
I work with fictionalism, archival research, and embodied methods to unsettle dominant visual narratives and open new ways of seeing.
Research
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|> EMBODIED METHODOLOGY
Thinking with your feet
Fictionalism, embodied practice, and the fluidity of photography.
|> INTERDEPENDENCE
Interdependence as a method and a process
Interdependence forms the foundation of collaboration, shaping both the process and the final images.
|> EPISTEMOLOGY OF IMAGES
Confusion is gorgeous
Confusion, often perceived as a cognitive obstacle, is a state of disorientation, uncertainty, or lack of immediate comprehension.
Recent writing/blog
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A place where I share small thoughts, works‑in‑progress, and things I’m noticing along the way.
Henri Michaux’s drawings and ink works have long shaped how I think about the possibility of a language.