Instagram Takeover: Jocelyn Allen

Photographer, Jocelyn Allen shows us past series and new projects, during her Instagram takeover, April 2016.

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She joins a list of guest editors including Cristina de Middel, Lorenzo Vitturi, Natasha Caruana, Alma Haser, Federica Chiochetti and many more.

Jocelyn Allen (b.1988 Birmingham, UK) is an artist who mainly works with photography, video and performance. She primarily uses herself within her work, whilst exploring the themes of representation, self-esteem, anxiety and identity.

@jocelynfreya (Jocelyn Allen) here. This is my last post for @photoworks_uk’s Instagram. Thanks for having me! One last photo from my work-in-progress project Neblina, 2015-2016 (see 2 previous posts). This is ‘If someone ever asks me what I am doing I’d like to ask to photograph them (8th December 2015)’. When I first started the project I was writing down everything that made me anxious, but I had to stop as I found that a lot of things did that I hadn’t realised before so it was making me feel worse. I’ve been learning Portuguese for over a year now (mas eu sou muito má) and a month or so into the project the word neblina came up in one of my exercises. It means ‘light fog’, which I thought fitted how my anxiety feels in my head. The drawings have started to become more time consuming lately so I’m not sure when the series will be completed, but hopefully soon! Thanks for following along on my takeover! #photoworks_uk #jocelynallen #instagramtakeover #selfportraiture #selfportrait

A photo posted by Photoworks (@photoworks_uk) on Apr 10, 2016 at 1:12pm PDT

Allen has a BA in Photographic Art from the University of Wales, Newport (2007-2010) and an MA in Photography from the London College of Communication (2013-2014).

@jocelynfreya (Jocelyn Allen) here taking over @photoworks_uk’s Instagram for the week. After finishing my MA at the end of 2014 I told myself that I didn’t want to make a project and instead I should make single images. However a project started to emerge anyways which then developed into Analgamated Anomalies (2014-2015). The series could almost be called Your Mind & Body Is All That You’ve Got III, but I have pretty much exhausted that title for my work. #photoworks_uk #jocelynallen #instagramtakeover #selfportraiture #selfportrait

A photo posted by Photoworks (@photoworks_uk) on Apr 9, 2016 at 11:03am PDT

In 2015 she exhibited work in FreshFaced+WildEyed at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, at the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China and had photography and video work at the British Council in Delhi, India.

@jocelynfreya (Jocelyn Allen) here taking over @photoworks_uk’s Instagram for the week. Another photo from Covering The Carpet, 2014 (see last 2 posts). The name refers to the series being a performance in concealing my pubic hair, but I also bought a bit of light carpet to place over the dark one in my room/’studio’ to help vary the backgrounds a bit. #photoworks_uk #jocelynallen #instagramtakeover #selfportraiture #selfportrait

A photo posted by Photoworks (@photoworks_uk) on Apr 8, 2016 at 10:12am PDT

Other career highlights include self-publishing a book (Reality of Youth Going Backwards in Vain, 2013), having a two person show at Photofusion, London (2013), making a new project (One Is Not Like The Other) for Guernsey Photography Festival 2011 and being one of the chosen artists to represent the UK in the 2011 Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean.

@jocelynfreya (Jocelyn Allen) here taking over @photoworks_uk’s Instagram for the week. One last photo from Covering The Carpet, 2014 (see last 3 posts). About half of the project was shown last summer at The Photographers’ Gallery, London as part of FreshFaced+WildEyed. #photoworks_uk #jocelynallen #instagramtakeover #selfportraiture #selfportrait

A photo posted by Photoworks (@photoworks_uk) on Apr 8, 2016 at 1:12pm PDT

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