Jean is an artist and SELF-TAUGHT photographer working across South Africa and Australia exploring the intersections of urban landscapes, racial capitalism and inequality. Their work documents our relationships to each other, our physical environments, and our experience of capitalist time. They ran away from a career in the fashion industry to pursue a more contemplative and observational mode of photographic record, one that can make normalised and hidden structures visible.

As a disabled and neurodivergent non-binary photographer, they find refuge in analogue photography, especially medium-format film, because it fosters a practice anchored in the moment. This documentary mode represents a stubborn immersion in a slow burn process despite a world fixated on fast time and rapid productivity. They have a kinship with the discarded, the slow, the cumbersome. (Bonus: they get to be a doctor for sick and ill camera lenses and bring them back to life!)

Their artistic interests also include queer portraiture, the rhythms of the everyday, and the idiosyncrasies of the mundane. The things you only notice when you slow down, look CLOSELY, and SHUT your eyes.