NOWHERE BUT HERE // Jocelyn Lee
Summary: Whether classified as landscapes, portraits or nudes, Jocelyn Lee's photographs poignantly capture beauty and humanity's fragile nature. Her images of the natural and constructed world explore the sensuality and materiality of the environments against which life's events continually unfold.
Capturing solitary moments of self-reflection, Lee endows her subjects, be they familiar family friends or strangers, with a vivid yet dignified presence. Her portraits are filled with implicit stories, conveyed through the contemplative countenances and poses of her sitters. Lee seeks to reveal a subtle beauty, both physical and psychological, that is often overlooked: "the quality of a middle-aged woman's naked body, alone in a motel room; the way lingerie is filled with hope and expectation for physical intimacy; or the quality of light on a person’s skin as they sit on their bed before a day of activity." With a clear and compassionate eye, Lee encourages viewers to consider universal issues such as youth and aging, illness and mortality, vulnerability, and our relationship with nature. As Sharon Olds observes, "[Lee] gives us ourselves, in the eyes of others looking out at us."
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