Scenic beauty is hell.

Written By Jocelyn Janon

Road Kill - 01.

Landscape photography in Aotearoa is almost too easy. Pull over anywhere and the view performs for you — mountains arranged just so, clouds rehearsed, light obedient. It’s a seduction that borders on hypnosis.
As Yukio Mishima once wrote, “Scenic beauty is hell, isn’t it?” (1)

The hell here is how quickly the landscape takes control.

Road Kills gathers photographs made from the roadside, where the temptation to simply point and click is strongest.

These images sit inside that tension: the photographer as a kind of roadside casualty, caught by the spectacle rather than actively looking. T

The land directs, dictates, overwhelms.
The camera merely complies.

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(1) Mishima, Y. (1959). The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (I. Morris, Trans.). Alfred A. Knopf. (Original work published 1956)

Jocelyn Janon

Photography is for me a means of meeting people and expressing my love for humans.

I am particularly interested in the talented ones.

The artists, the misfits, the “different” ones.

The round pegs in square holes.

In return, I have been lucky to photograph strong people who shared their weaknesses and beauty with me.

In exchange, I am creating safe spaces to produce images with deep feelings and meaning.

I am a French-born New Zealander [he/him/his] based in Auckland, NZ.

http://www.jocelynjanon.com
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