JET SWAN | Artist profiles
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Jet Swan is a young British photographer who grew up in North Yorkshire and now lives and works in Ramsgate, Kent.
SHOPPING CENTRE
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RAMSGATE
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ARENA HOMME +
For Jet's parents, both antique dealers, the colour ‘jet black' loomed large in their imagination and, on seeing their newborn daughter's hair, provide the name they'd been looking for.
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BUFFALO ZINE
MURA MASA
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Jet Swan's work moves between the parameters of documentary and classical portraiture as the artist revels in a cold, moody palette of blacks, greys and blues... it's difficult not to be drawn to its significance.
RAMSGATE
'SEAM', PUBLISHED BY CLAIRE DE ROUEN BOOKS, 2021
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Jet began experimenting with photography as a teenager studying dressmaking and fashion at college in Leeds, using it chiefly as a way to document new ideas. Couture also had a lasting impact on her.
A tipping point came around 2015, "I felt like I began to hone something. I started making pictures that I felt satisfied what I wanted to say".
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DAZED, COLLABORATION WITH CLAUDIA SINCLAIR
'MATERIAL'
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MIDDLE PLANE
Her portraits are underexposed, purposefully crepuscular in palette and metaphor. She was drawn to influential portraitists: Helmar Lerski, William Mortensen and contemporaries Nadav Kander and Sally Mann.
MODERN WEEKLY CHINA, MISS RAMSGATE
"I like touching on a primitive, almost a child's idea of sexuality or eroticism," Jet says. "These very basic ideas about what 'sexy' is... It sometimes feels like I'm playing into this male idea of women's bodies which I enjoy doing."
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MATERIAL collects together the last three years of Jet's engagement with members of the public through impromptu studio spaces (such as an empty shopfront inside a commercial mall...) with a text in response by acclaimed poet Rachael Allen. «Often the most seemingly ordinary people are the most fascinating,”
'MATERIAL', MONOGRAPH PUBLISHED BY LOOSE JOINTS, 2021
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