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Jack Symes

@jack.symes

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Sara at the water Fountain
Barcelona

Model Sara @selectyaglossy
HMU Julieta Fernández @juliettedanslarue
Photographer @jack.symes

Bait dip top
Seine net skirt

Latex pour glaze, fishing nets, silk, tulle

Droplets of sweat, “crystalline mists,” injectables
It is difficult to track what counts as “inside” and “outside” of bodies. Blood and amniotic liquor, baby-food and baby-drink and soil and brains and plants and river and sea are largely water as are people (60 percent of them). Impossible to keep such damp beings cleanly apart...
Water is very accommodating. It is easy to taint and to flavor and exceedingly difficult to wipe clean of the traces of ignorant deeds. It is by far the greater part of us, yet with just the slightest change of proportion it will drown us; it is entirely dead, yet teeming with the life that can’t exist without it; it is far bigger than us and it is utterly, blithely inhuman.
All humans in history have been manufactured underwater: in amniotic fluid. Amniotic fluid (in Latin: liquor amnii) is initially a mix of water and electrolytes and later sugar, scraps of vagrant DNA, fats, proteins, piss.

Text by Sophie Lewis by @jack.symes

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2 months ago

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Cementiri de Montjuic, Barcelona

Julietta

Model Julietta Ferrarri @c_d_light
HMU Julieta Fernández @juliettedanslarue
Photographer @jack.symes

Julietta wears Tomb Suit
Latex pinstripe glaze, found denim, pvc, stockings.

Dustbins full of impressions over turned in half light
when sugar gathers around us like snow in summer by @jack.symes

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2 months ago

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Julietta

Barcelona

Model Julietta Ferrarri @c_d_light
HMU Julieta Fernández @juliettedanslarue
Photographer @jack.symes

Organza pine snow wrap skirt with tie cords
Mist song brushwork porcelain top

The dam materialised, white face gleaming against the harsh rusts and tarpes and mauves of the rocks, the ominous outlets to unused spillways, black in the lunar clarity of the desert light. Quite often I hear the turbines by @jack.symes

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2 months ago

CameraTest_Utah.mp4 taken in Utah, USA by @jack.symes

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5 months ago

Outtakes from @craig__green

Mini DV Inkjet Printed Test Strip Collage

Adding older work here to update my mind..

Craig Green ‘23/‘24 by @jack.symes

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7 months ago

Four days in California.

Left side of the plane. Sycamore Cove. Jon and Becky at Lands End. Flowers on the freeway.

🛬🌅👫🌺 taken in California by @jack.symes

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7 months ago

Spreads from ‘Sierra Book’, an edition of 2 hand-bound book.

The book documents a trip through the Sierra Mountains in Aug/Sep ’25. Hot-springs, lightning, snakes, psychedelic visions. These images are the closest I can come to translating that experience.

Edition of 2.
138 pages
205mm x 150mm
2026. taken in Sierra Mountains by @jack.symes

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9 months ago

Solidarity with oppressed peoples

(An increased need for protest.) taken in Piccadilly Circus by @jack.symes

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9 months ago

I want to introduce a few of my favourite portraits from time spent at Dover Raceway this year.

x taken in Dover, Kent by @jack.symes

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a year ago

I just like how these images sit together.. by @jack.symes

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a year ago

Loz checking the print I made for @rapideye.darkroom @photobookcafe ‘End of Summer’ show.

Tonight (2nd October) in London for those that are around.

I’d like to think this image could be called ‘The Spectator’.. by @jack.symes

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a year ago

7pm May 10th
Barcelona Summer 25 Runway

backstage chatting smoking waiting texting last moments

photos by @jack.symes taken in Barcelona by @jack.symes

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a year ago