Juno Calypso

Juno Calypso (born 1989) is a British photographer. Her self-portraits are personal works about feminism, isolation, loneliness and being self-sufficient. Working alone, Calypso has made highly stylised photographs of herself whilst dressed as a fictional alter-ego, "Joyce", in unusual surroundings. She also works as a commercial photographer.

Calypso was joint winner of the British Journal of Photography International Photography Award in 2016. In 2018 she received the Vic Odden Award from the Royal Photographic Society.

Early life and education Calypso was born in Hackney, London in 1989. She gained an Art Foundation Diploma from Chelsea College of Arts (University of the Arts London) in 2008 and a BA in Photography from London College of Communication (University of the Arts London) in 2012.

Life and work For her personal work, working alone, Calypso has photographed highly stylised self-portraits of herself whilst costumed as a fictional alter-ego, "Joyce", a "bored, frustrated, lonely housewife of her imagination", in unfamiliar, unusual and over-the-top surroundings.

For her series Joyce, Calypso photographed herself in various hotel rooms. The work is about the "oppressive elements of femininity", its "restrictive beauty regimes and modern rituals of seduction". She has said "I'm trying to make a perfect photograph of a woman trying to create a perfect vision of herself." 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." Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2017. By Fiona Rogers and Max Houghton. .

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

Awards 2013: Winner, Visitor Vote, Catlin Art Prize, XL Catlin 2016: Joint winner, British Journal of Photography International Photography Award, for Joyce. The other winner was Felicity Hammond. 2016: One of 24 selected, Foam Talent Call, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam 2018: Vic Odden Award, Royal Photographic Society, Bath

Solo exhibitions Artist of the Day, selected by Tom Hunter, Flowers Gallery, London, 2015 71a Presents: Juno Calypso, 71a Gallery, London, October 2015 What to Do with a Million Years, TJ Boulting, London, May–June 2018; Studio Giangaleazzo Visconti, Milan, Italy, 2018/2019