"For over four decades, American-born photographer has been making pictures exploring the experience of womanhood. Inspired by image-makers such as Julia Margaret Cameron and Nancy HoneyNan Goldin, who have used their immediate environments and what they had at hand to create work of extraordinary imagination and empathy, Honey's heartfelt portraits honour her chosen theme with tenderness, humour, beauty and dignity."
""My ex-husband and I had lived together in San Francisco and made a little dark room in the cupboard under the stairs. I was working in black and white, just self-taught," she recalls. After moving to the UK and settling in Bath with her young family, she enrolled in a visual communication course - the closest thing she could find to a photography class. "I had a one-year-old and a three-year-old, but I just thought, 'Wow, I have to get my degree,' because I knew by then I wanted to be a photographer.""
"Honey was drawn to photography for its immediacy, as well as its ability to distil a passing moment. "Over the years, you learn all the things that you love about photography," she explains. "I love the relationship it has with time. Almost every photographer I've ever met, when we look at our pictures, we can remember the exact time we took each one.""
"Over the ensuing decades she shot prolifically, creating numerous bodies of work and amassing a vast archive of pictures (and memories). Her recent exhibition, which was on display at the newly opened Shoreditch site of legendary fashion and photography bookshop Claire de Rouen, pulled together images from across multiple bodies of work."
American-born photographer has spent over four decades creating portraits exploring womanhood. Influences include image-makers who used immediate surroundings and available materials to produce empathetic, imaginative work. Her portraits reflect tenderness, humour, beauty, and dignity. She trained in fine art as a painter before self-taught black-and-white photography in a small darkroom in San Francisco. After moving to the UK and settling in Bath, she completed a visual communication degree while raising young children. She values photography’s immediacy and its ability to distil passing moments, especially its relationship with time, since photographers can often recall the exact time each image was taken. She has built extensive bodies of work and a large archive of images and memories.
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