Jean is a photographic artist, creative researcher and founder of Screwed zine. 

They employ the ethics of DIY making and printing whilst embracing erotic temporality as a tool to destroy ableist, capitalist time constructs. They use photography and camera centred performance to liberate marginalised bodies, exploring fluid viewpoints of sex and desire. Their work seeks to find a language with which to speak of sex and queerness through protest and anarchy, liberating the narrative that sex based images are revolutionary through representation alone. Iconographic queer images and themes are subverted, challenging how we have been archiving queerness and how we can reshape and reimagine our identities  as fully embodied, complex, often traumatised, political forces and resting bodies beyond performative codes. 

Jean’s work gives space for violence and hypocritical, non linear formations of desire, celebrating all the perverted, queer, crippled, mad and othered. They are interested in what constitutes as erotic imagery and how the erotic can be used as a tool to discuss and dismantle power structures that lie within society, within the institutions and within capitalism. Their work is informed by black feminist thoughts on abolition, disability justice, trans feminism, sex worker history and the dyke underground.

They have documented and collaborated with sex positive and sex worker communities over the years who focus on dismantling shame as well as the gender non-conforming leather community they are part of.

Jean has been published in Dazed, The Face, Polyester, Perfect Magazine, Pornceptual and more.

Screwed is due to be self published this year.