{"id":61030,"date":"2015-11-25T16:54:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T16:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=61030"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:30:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:30:30","slug":"eyes-juno-calypso-conversation-bruno-ceschel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2015\/11\/25\/eyes-juno-calypso-conversation-bruno-ceschel\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes On: Juno Calypso in Conversation With Bruno Ceschel"},"content":{"rendered":"
We partnered up one-woman photographic storyteller Juno Calypso with\u00a0Bruno Ceschel, founder of Self Publish, Be Happy.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n Last summer, Juno Calypso was trekking through rural Pennsylvania to visit a 1960s honeymoon resort, the scenery for her latest staging.\u00a0Juno poses as her own imagined muse, Joyce, a\u00a0broken and frustrated\u00a0housewife, her sensuous effigy arising from a pink heart shaped hot-tub. The images, like film-stills rather than portraits,\u00a0suck you into a Lynchian dream-world of\u00a0old-school Hollywood glamour – with a hint of dystopia, just\u00a0to throw you off when you think everything might be alright.<\/p>\n Juno is an almighty\u00a0one-girl show, having never used the help of an assistant during the set up of her work;\u00a0camera, lighting, costume and all. Usually, photo shoots that hire a different member of staff to take each task, such as meticulously styling hair, body-painting or\u00a0manning the equipment are hard enough work to orchestrate, so we can’t begin to imagine how Juno handles all of this and executes her images so perfectly.\u00a0“An assistant could be helpful, but I start shoots at 9 in the evening” she tells us,\u00a0“I end at 5am. I couldn\u2019t put someone through that!”<\/span><\/p>\n Tonight, Juno will be discussing her\u00a0Joyce<\/i> collection\u00a0with publisher Bruno Ceschel, founder of Self Publish, Be Happy, an organisation\u00a0which supports the work of emerging photographers, and who will be hosting a series of talks and workshops down at The Photographer’s Gallery in Soho this month.<\/p>\n