Juno Calypso

Calypso was born in Hackney, London in 1989.{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-06|title=Juno Calypso's best photograph: voyeurism in a pink cold-war bunker|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jan/03/juno-calypso-best-photograph-cold-war-bunker-cure-for-death|date=3 January 2019|website=The Guardian}}{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=Juno Calypso|url=http://unseenamsterdam.com/photographers/juno-calypso|website=unseenamsterdam.com}} She gained an Art Foundation Diploma from Chelsea College of Arts (University of the Arts London) in 2008{{cite web|accessdate=2018-08-06|title=Juno Calypso|url=http://margueritelondon.com/juno-calypso/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190221105638/http://margueritelondon.com/juno-calypso|url-status=usurped|archive-date=21 February 2019|website=Marguerite}} and a BA in Photography from London College of Communication (University of the Arts London) in 2012.{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=Juno Calypso checks in solo at a surreal honeymoon hotel|url=https://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/juno-calypso-checks-solo-surreal-honeymoon-hotel/|website=Huck Magazine|date=1 October 2015}}

For her personal work, working alone Calypso has photographed highly stylised{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=Juno Calypso – Wonderland|url=https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2017/05/18/juno-calypso/|website=Wonderland|date=18 May 2017}} self-portraits of herself whilst costumed as a fictional alter-ego, "Joyce",{{cite news|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=One to Watch: Juno Calypso, artist, 23|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/one-to-watch-juno-calypso-artist-23-8524781.html|newspaper=The Independent|date=7 March 2013}}{{cite web|accessdate=2018-08-01|title=01/06/2017, The Arts Show - BBC Radio Ulster|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rsmpx|website=BBC}} a "bored, frustrated, lonely housewife of her imagination",{{cite web|first1=Nell|last1=Frizzell|accessdate=2018-05-12|title='I sounded like I was having the best sex': Juno Calypso's one-woman world tour of honeymoon hotels|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jul/02/juno-calypso-tour-honeymoon-hotels|date=2 July 2015|website=The Guardian}} in unfamiliar, unusual and over-the-top surroundings.{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=Juno Calypso's 3D renderings take form at Galeria Melissa in London|url=https://www.wallpaper.com/fashion/juno-calypso-galeria-melissa-the-salon|website=Wallpaper|date=15 February 2018}}

For her series Joyce, Calypso photographed herself in various hotel rooms.{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=Artificial Sweeteners|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/16090/1/juno-calypso|website=Dazed|date=3 May 2013}}{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=Challenging and Strange Portraits of Femininity|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/04/06/_juno_calypso_joyce_is_an_examination_of_the_oppressive_trappings_of_idealized.html|website=Slate|date=6 April 2014|issn=1091-2339}} The work is about the "oppressive elements of femininity", its "restrictive beauty regimes and modern rituals of seduction".{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=juno calypso's staged self-portraits reveal the hidden labour of women behind bathroom doors|url=https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/nebkkd/juno-calypsos-staged-self-portraits-reveal-the-hidden-labour-of-women-behind-bathroom-doors|website=I-d|date=21 December 2015|first1=Stevie|last1=Mackenzie-Smith}}{{dead link|date=May 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} She has said "I'm trying to make a perfect photograph of a woman trying to create a perfect vision of herself."

In The Honeymoon series, she photographed herself alone in an American couples-only honeymoon resort.{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=This photographer went on a one-woman honeymoon|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/25387/1/this-photographer-went-on-a-one-woman-honeymoon|website=Dazed|date=8 July 2015}} Nell Frizzell wrote in The Guardian that "there is a sense of airless claustrophobia about much of Calypso’s work. But in the Honeymoon Hotel pictures, that frustration is twinned with loneliness." Alexandra Genova wrote in Time that her "work is a delicate dance between comedy and despair."

Calypso has said:

I used to take pictures of Joyce as a way of making a critique on the laboured construction of femininity, but now I’m starting to see that the problem isn’t the make-up and bizarre body improvement devices, but the way society treats women who invest so deeply in their appearance."

She also works as a commercial photographer.

• The Catlin Art Guide: New Artists in the UK. Catlin Holdings, 2013. By Justin Hammond. {{ISBN|978-0956457035}}.
• It's Nice That Annual. London: It's Nice That, 2013.
• Mossless 4: Public/Private/Portrait. Brooklyn, NY: Romke Hoogwaerts; New York: International Center of Photography, 2016. {{ISBN|978-0692712399}}.
• Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze. London: Laurence King, 2017. By Charlotte Jansen. {{ISBN|978-1780679556}}.{{cite web|last1=Dazed|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=A comprehensive guide to girl on girl photography|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/35505/1/a-comprehensive-guide-to-girl-on-girl-photography|website=Dazed|date=6 April 2017}}
• Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2017. By Fiona Rogers and Max Houghton. {{ISBN|978-0500544747}}.

• The Linda Evans Rejuvenique Facial Toning System (2012)
• Empty Pleasures (2012)
• The Making of Joyce (2014)
• The Honeymoon Suite (2015)

• 2013: Winner, Visitor Vote, Catlin Art Prize, XL Catlin{{cite web|accessdate=2018-08-01|title=Artist Terry Ryu Kim named winner of the Catlin Art Prize 2013 Juno Calypso wins the Visitor Vote - FAD Magazine|url=https://fadmagazine.com/2013/05/23/artist-terry-ryu-kim-named-winner-of-the-catlin-art-prize-2013-juno-calypso-wins-the-visitor-vote/|website=FAD Magazine|date=23 May 2013}}{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=Juno Calypso: 'It can get lonely and weird'|url=http://www.bjp-online.com/2017/10/juno-calypso-it-can-get-lonely-and-weird/|website=British Journal of Photography}}
• 2016: Joint winner, British Journal of Photography International Photography Award, for Joyce. The other winner was Felicity Hammond.{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=Winners of the BJP International Photography Awards 2016 announced|url=http://www.bjp-online.com/2016/02/ipa-2016-winners-announcement/|website=British Journal of Photography}}
• 2016: One of 24 selected, Foam Talent Call, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-13|title=Foam Talent Call|url=https://www.foam.org/talent/foam-talent-call|website=Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam|archive-date=7 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807033221/https://www.foam.org/talent/foam-talent-call|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=Show: FOAM Talent tips 24 young artists for the top|url=http://www.bjp-online.com/2017/05/photo-london-week-foam-talent-show/|website=British Journal of Photography}}
• 2018: Vic Odden Award, Royal Photographic Society, Bath{{cite web|accessdate=2018-12-10|title=The Royal Photographic Society Awards 2018|url=http://www.rps.org/news/2018/november/the-royal-photographic-society-awards-2018|website=www.rps.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204113432/http://www.rps.org/news/2018/november/the-royal-photographic-society-awards-2018|archive-date=2018-12-04|url-status=dead}}

• Artist of the Day, selected by Tom Hunter, Flowers Gallery, London, 2015{{cite web |title=Artist of the Day 2015 |url=https://www.flowersgallery.com/exhibitions/view/artist-of-the-day-2015 |website=Flowers Gallery}}
• 71a Presents: Juno Calypso, 71a Gallery, London, October 2015{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=Aesthetica Magazine - Interview with Juno Calypso, Artist and LCC Graduate|url=http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/interview-with-juno-calypso-artist-and-lcc-graduate/|website=Aesthetica Magazine}}
• What to Do with a Million Years, TJ Boulting, London, May–June 2018;{{cite web|accessdate=2018-05-12|title=Juno Calypso: What to do with a million years|url=https://www.timeout.com/london/art/juno-calypso-what-to-do-with-a-million-years|website=Time Out London|first1=Eddy|last1=Frankel}}{{cite web|accessdate=2018-08-01|title=What To Do With A Million Years by Juno Calypso – British Journal of Photography|url=http://www.bjp-online.com/2018/06/juno-calypso-million-years/|website=www.bjp-online.com}}{{cite web|last1=Dazed|accessdate=2018-08-01|title=Juno Calypso's new surreal underground photo series is creepy AF|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/40038/1/juno-calypso-s-what-to-do-with-a-million-years-new-surreal-creepy-af-photos|website=Dazed|date=15 May 2018}} Studio Giangaleazzo Visconti, Milan, Italy, 2018/2019{{cite web|accessdate=2021-04-06|title=Juno Calypso: Studio Giangaleazzo Visconti|url=https://www.vogue.it/photo-vogue-festival/exhibition/2018/10/30/juno-calypso-giangaleazzo-visconti/|date=30 September 2018|website=Vogue.it}}

• Cindy Sherman
• Petra Collins
• Petra Cortright
• Christto & Andrew

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• {{Official website|www.junocalypso.com}}
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jsjiWhJrqM "Juno Calypso's Five Favourite Objects"] for British Vogue (video)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmnedKsopaM Calypso talk for It's Nice That in 2016] (video)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY9z8dJg0bY Calypso talk for It's Nice That in 2017] (video)

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