Jane Burton is an Australian photographer who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Her photographs are dark, mysterious, edgy and seductive. A majority of her work combines landscapes together with portraits. Narrative and emotion are contained within all of the different series that she creates, each one varying in its surrealistic and dream-like atmospheres. This is something that I hope to one day achieve within my own work, and I hope as successfully as she has. The dark and muted color references Romanticism: film noir and personal spaces. The landscape is strange and full of foreboding and mystery, suggesting a dark enchanted world that refers to the Romantics' view of nature's correspondence to the mind and her images are, in a way, poetic. Burton's female bodies are in isolated environments (inclusive of home and nature) and she constructs a kind of psychological drama of desire and longing where naked female bodies are juxtaposed to empty architectural interiors and dark and moody landscapes. Each collection of her work is so different from one another - but their connection to one another is undeniable. The narratives are ambiguous, leaving the viewer to fill in the blanks as desired. Undoubtedly, the viewer succumbs to the feeling of melancholy that is tinged with nostalgia. There is something about the darkness and sadness, but undeniable beauty, of her images that instantly attracts me to them and keeps me coming back for more. (TERI McCANS)
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