Jacotey's work draws inspiration from the gathering of people together, the expression of emotions in their many and varied interactions and the contexts and details in which these engagements take place — architecture, landscape, or place; picking out wallpaper, furniture, clothes, and zooming in further to detail pattern, patina, texture... Her works — though insistently manual in their making (paintings on plaster and dust sheets, pencil drawings, sewing and fabric)-- make use of perspectives that reference the world of cinema and slo - mo, the
photographer's point and shoot, identifying an artist
who has come of age in the
smartphone world with its prevalent verbs — zoom, scroll, tap, drag, swipe etc..
Aside from the difficulty in testing an arbitrary number of camera apps and modes, this approach reflects the experience of the vast majority of
smartphone photographers,
who use their devices in the default setting, and also of the phone vendor,
who presumably makes an effort to have the default setting present the camera at its best.