Lois & Carey

'Lois & Carey' is a photographic series by Rona Bar that explores the intimate, intergenerational relationship between a mother (Carey) and daughter (Lois), 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, memory, 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. Carey’s fascination with birds, particularly crows, ties into Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers. This symbolism reinforces themes of resistance, survival, and the poetic duality of freedom and confinement. The series invites the viewer to feel rather than to analyze, to absorb the texture of a relationship rather than define it.