Lois and her mother Carey, before Shabbat dinner

2025
Fine art giclée print on hahnemühle photo rag paper
80 x 60 cm

About the work

Lois wearing her latex mask and body suit with the Jewish star on it, posing next to the kitchen table where her mother Carey is drawing, just before Shabbat dinner.

This photograph is a part of a photographic series and a photo book titled "Lois & Carey", that explores the intimate, intergenerational relationship between a mother (Carey) and her daughter (Lois), both Jewish artists living in London, UK.

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.

The series invites the viewer to feel rather than to analyze, to absorb the texture of a relationship rather than define it.

Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom

Fotómetro is the artistic collaboration of London-based photographers Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom, who are partners both in life and in their creative endeavors.

Their work is distinguished by intimate and poignant portraiture that delves into the human experience, often featuring diverse, non-professional models to authentically capture individuality.

Fotómetro’s artistic style is a bold fusion of documentary and dreamlike surrealism, marked by vibrant color palettes, meticulous staging, and emotionally charged composition.

Their imagery often captures subjects at the intersection of vulnerability and empowerment, portraying people not just as they are, but as they wish to be seen. The duo use photography as a tool for social commentary, frequently addressing themes of identity, gender expression, body diversity, and the beauty of the unconventional.

Their lens celebrates the poetry of real life—elevating the everyday into something extraordinary, while challenging traditional standards of beauty and representation.

Through this approach, Fotómetro cultivates a space where authenticity and imagination coexist, pushing visual boundaries and inviting viewers to reconsider what it means to truly exist and be seen.

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