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Come Get Your Honey, 2018–21 — plates

A person in a black mesh top stands against a dark wall flecked with light, arms folded across their chest.
A pale wooden back door in a Berlin courtyard, with plants growing up around the threshold.
A hand rests on the back of a red dress, close in and cropped tight.
A person in a blue belly-dance costume sits in half-light, hands lifted to their hair.
A person reclines by a window, holding a patterned garment above their head.
Figures silhouetted in blue fog under a single bright light at night.
A person in a blue dress stands at a kitchen sink, dark hair falling over their shoulder.
A bar window lit red at night, graffiti spread across the facade around it.
A person with pink hair sits in a kitchen with orange curtains and a laid table.
A person sits in a kitchen doorway beside a shisha pipe, white shirt open, a broom leaning in the light.
A person in a red sequinned dress stands in a doorway, seen from behind.
A portrait in a gold bridal headdress and layered jewellery, eyes meeting the camera.
A person stands in dense green undergrowth, their face hidden by the leaves.
A hand reaches from a window through net curtains and leaves.
A person lies in soft light wearing a feather boa — the cover photograph of Come Get Your Honey.
One person rests a hand over another’s eye, rings catching the light.
Laundry hangs on lines strung across a bright room with white brick walls.
A person in a pink headscarf looks out through a curtained window.
A portrait of a person in a red corset against a red wall.
A figure in a blue gown stands in a basement doorway crowned by a candelabra.
A person stands in a lit basement doorway covered in stickers.
A figure stands out of focus in a Berlin street, low sun catching the buildings behind.
The runway markings at Tempelhof field, a kite far in the distance.
A skater crosses Tempelhof field in a yellow jacket under heavy clouds.
Long dark hair extensions laid out on a white sheet.
A necklace spelling “mother” rests against a plaid shirt, close in.
A canal running through summer greenery in Berlin.
A person sits on a balcony in golden evening light, the city soft beyond the netting.
A person in costume sits on a sofa beneath a candelabra headdress.
Two people in evening gowns sit on a white sofa, drinks on the table before them.
A pair of studded ankle boots on a dark floor.
Two hands rest together on a bed in low afternoon light.
A person kneels in sunlight, dark hair thrown upward mid-motion.
A Berlin high-rise facade at dusk, red balconies running down one side.
A person in a backwards cap smokes against a concrete wall.
A blue tulle dress hangs in a patch of light at an open wardrobe of clothes.
Two people in black t-shirts lie on a turquoise floral bedspread, fingertips touching, one looking at the other.
A person in profile in a dark room, hair swept back, wearing a large hoop earring and gold chains.
A person in a silver sequinned dress, pink wig and sunglasses leans back against a railing under a bright sky.
Fallen leaves covered in frost on the ground, crossed by bare twigs and a cut branch.
A lattice of pale canes stands before a window, beyond it a steel bridge in sunlight.
A navy cloth printed with gold suns, moons and stars hangs at a flower stall among potted hydrangeas and sunflowers.
Trainers and a high-heeled shoe hang by their laces from the sunlit steel girders under a bridge.
White petals scattered across cracked grey asphalt in low sun, beside the wheel of a parked car.
A red and white concrete pump arm crosses a construction pit spanned by rusted steel pipes, workers in high-visibility vests small below.
A person in a mesh jersey sits on a stage floor lit red and teal, reaching for a silver heel.
A person in a black beaded fringe costume raises a tattooed arm to their forehead among stacked storage boxes.
A person in a red lace corset and taped wig cap stands against white tiles below a red wall.
A person in an open black shirt sits on a wooden floor beside a wall of potted plants in yoghurt tubs.
Gymnastic rings hang before a bright window above a brick wall, potted plants and a lit lamp.
A pendant lamp hangs over a low bed with cushions in a room papered with aerial city maps.
A person in a black cap holds their grey T-shirt to their face, shadow falling on the sunlit brick wall.
A dark metal cube stands on gravel in a park, its small window crossed with red-and-white tape.
A person's neck in bright sunlight, a small block tattoo below dark curls, one hand at their collar.
A metal door stands ajar in a plastered enclosure under the bare rafters of a dusty attic.
A person in a blue gown and black veil stands in a doorway, a gold candelabra on their head.
A person with long hair leans on a netted balcony rail in low sun, facing an apartment block.
A person stands in the spray of a fountain at sunset, a colonnaded museum building behind them.
A tattoo reading mother at the base of a neck, under a silver chain and open plaid collar.
A person in a pink veil stands behind a sheer curtain at a bright window, hand on the frame.
A person in a patterned knit sweater lies on a mattress among pillows, one hand at their mouth.
Three lengths of dark wavy hair extensions, clipped at one end, lie on a sunlit white sheet.
A blue and gold embroidered rug is draped over a chair beside a dark sofa and a bright window.
A person lies on a blue blanket, one hand over an eye, another person's hands on their head and chest.
Hands pour water from a blue bowl over a person in a bathtub, yellow paste and petals on their skin.
A brown felt hat and beaded necklace hang on a white wall above framed photos and a coffee maker.
A rhinestone crown sits on a black speaker beside a lit electric fireplace, sheer curtains to the right.
Bare tree branches spread against a pale blue-grey sky, with dark clumps of mistletoe in the forks.
A person in a beaded veil and candelabra headdress sits on a leather sofa against a blue wall.
Several people wrapped in white sheets lie and crouch on a dark floor, blurred by movement.
Two open palms held out in darkness, light falling in patches across the fingers and a silver bracelet.
Black charcoal cubes stacked on a white plate on a sunlit windowsill beside a frosted window.
A small pale stone and a sprig of green flower buds lie on a concrete ledge below a grey wall.
A person in a white blazer and jeans kneels on sand, long black hair thrown up in the air.
A person in a silver beaded top and white skirt stands barefoot in an open window above a crowd.
A person in a yellow hooded jacket skates along an empty runway, flying a yellow kite under thick cloud.

Come Get Your Honey, 2018–21. Made with nearly fifty queer, trans and gender-nonconforming refugees and asylum seekers in Berlin; around fifteen portraits carried the final series, mixing visibility and anonymity, and they sit here among photographs of the city itself.

Published by Kehrer Verlag, 2021 — about the book. Prints by enquiry. All 76 plates as a contact sheet.

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