Fotómetro garden portrait chosen for Winston Taylor prize — SkimNews
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- Fotómetro (Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom) had "Lois and Carey in the Garden" chosen for this year's Winston Taylor Photo Portrait prize, with the exhibition set for November at London's National Portrait Gallery.
- Lois and Carey — a mother-daughter artist duo — opened their home to the project after Fotómetro connected with Lois via Instagram, and the photographers kept returning for two years, discovering new rooms and artworks each visit.
- Lois is a performance artist in the fetish community whose work explores sexuality and queerness; an early project image shows her in a Star of David latex bodysuit while Carey draws at a kitchen table behind her.
- Carey tends the garden daily and treats it as an extension of the mother-daughter bond; in the featured photograph she waters plants while Lois poses among them, "almost as if she is one of them."
- Fotómetro began their collaborative "Us" project in Tel Aviv before relocating to London in 2022, with their working partnership later becoming a personal one.
- The series won the Eve Arnold Photography prize in 2025 and is being published as the photobook "Lois & Carey" with 89Books in 2026, with two companion films — one on Lois, one on Carey — now in production.
Why it matters: The Winston Taylor selection at the National Portrait Gallery marks Fotómetro's second institutional nod there, following their 2023 Taylor Wessing exhibition — a rare return for an emerging Israeli-born duo whose two-year access to one household has yielded a prize-winning series, a 2026 photobook, and two films now in the pipeline.
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