Preservation - People Being Covered in Gallons of Honey

Nude models are encased in a viscous gold-hued goo in the eerie and visually striking portrait series Preservation by photographer Blake Little. Little achieved the effect by dousing his models in gallons of honey. In the resulting images, the models resembled creatures preserved in amber, hence the project title. Little has created a photo book for the series. The series is also the subject of a solo show at Kopeikin Gallery in Culver City, California, March 7 to April 18, 2015. [Desc Laughing Squid]
siftbotsays...

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, February 26th, 2015 4:50am PST - promote requested by original submitter Grimm.

bareboards2says...

@blackfox42, I had the same reaction.

The more I watched, the more I felt this was symbolic of the modern world's destruction of the honeybees, the waste of their labor and their lives. Very disturbing.

I also thought that food fetishists are going to be buying this book in droves.

Sorry, Grimm, to be all political on an artistic statement.

BicycleRepairMansays...

I suppose its a waste of good food, but buying honey is not hurting the honeybee cause, it creates demand for more honey, which means hopefully more people will start beekeeping, which will result in more bees overall. Remember, the problem isnt the lack of honey, but the lack of pollinators, ie: bees.

On a related note, I just ordered a Flow Hive cube(https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flow-hive-honey-on-tap-directly-from-your-beehive), and cant wait to start my own beekeeping-project

deathcowsays...

I was doing an artsy fartsy series like this with hydrofluoric acid but we ran into some problem I remember and barely even got through the first model.

Fairbssays...

900 five gallon jugs. I don't understand why they wouldn't recapture and reuse the honey. What a waste of money and honey.

And it's a bit ironic that they call the show 'Preservation'.

Grimmsays...

900 5lb jugs about a quart each. Still a lot but a fraction of what you said.

I'm guessing they recaptured and reused the honey for each individual shoot...just not for the next shoot.

Fairbssaid:

900 five gallon jugs. I don't understand why they wouldn't recapture and reuse the honey. What a waste of money and honey.

And it's a bit ironic that they call the show 'Preservation'.

00Scud00says...

Barely got through the first one? I'd say you got all the way through the first one, that was your problem.
I heard this whole thing was just a big misunderstanding, the guy who commissioned the work asked for "Money Shots", at least he still used a viscous and sticky fluid.

deathcowsaid:

I was doing an artsy fartsy series like this with hydrofluoric acid but we ran into some problem I remember and barely even got through the first model.

siftbotsays...

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