Lois & Carey

"Lois & Carey" is a photographic series that explores the intimate, intergenerational relationship between a daughter and her mother, both Jewish artists living in London, Set entirely within the walls of their home.

"Lois & Carey" is a photographic series and a photobook that explores the intimate, intergenerational relationship between Lois and Carey, a daughter and her mother, both Jewish artists living in London. Set entirely within the walls of their home, the project is a nuanced portrait of familial closeness, personal expression, and the unspoken tensions that shape lifelong bonds. In capturing the microcosm of one family, it speaks to broader truths about womanhood, queerness, aging, and the quiet revolutions that happen within the home.

At its core, the work is about the complex dance between mothers and daughters - how identity is inherited, resisted, and reinvented. The tension between queerness and family legacy is treated not as conflict, but as coexistence - messy, honest, and real.

In "Lois & Carey" the home is more than a setting - it is a living canvas. Mother and daughter weave their worlds together through brushstrokes and pencil lines, sketches, birds and tattoos, each mark a whisper of memory, a fragment of feeling. Their art spills across walls and tables, into the corners of rooms, folding daily life into a quiet, intimate performance.

You're invited to feel rather than to analyze, to absorb the texture of a relationship - rather than define it.

A poem by Emily Dickinson which is quoted in the book "Lois & Carey" -

“Hope” is the thing with feathers,

That perches in the soul ,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops - at all .

And sweetest, in the Gale, is heard,

And sore must be the storm,

That could abash the little Bird,

That kept so many warm.

I’ve heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest Sea,

Yet, never in Extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.