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Honey - Photo + Film

Brand photographer + videographer for creative, purpose-led businesses. Bega, Sapphire Coast NSW.

06/10/2026

Late autumn 2025. A roll of film I almost forgot about.

This roll seemed to have some issues… Light crept in through the seals of the camera, finding its way to the edges of the film near the sprocket holes and leaving this ripply, green-tinged bleed across a couple of the frames.

You can see Matilda the cat, tiny in the corner of frame 2, if you look closely. My youngest with his wild blonde hair and whatever weapon he’s found in the garden that day. Dark clouds, a few breaks of sun after rain, some pink in the sky, a rainbow or two. Things cut back for winter lying around in piles. I LOVE the quality of late afternoon autumn light… and I don’t think digital cameras capture it in the same way.

I shoot film because I can’t fully control it. Which is a strange thing for a control freak to say. But there’s something that loosens in me when I load a roll of film.

I’m keen to shoot more film for client work this year. If you’re curious about it and happy to come along for the ride, any of my usual packages can be shot on film. The magic tends to outweigh the imperfection.

Honey x

29/09/2026

This week’s newsletter features my first ever newsletter exchange, and I’m so glad it’s with these two.

Gab and Daniel from Bandicoot have been making pots together on the Far South Coast for years, each with their own distinct style, a shared name, and somehow a functioning relationship on top of it all. I photographed them a couple of years ago and have been an admirer ever since.

A newsletter exchange is simple. I feature someone and they do the same for me with their audience. We both grow our lists a little without anyone having to dance on Instagram.

The full Q&A is in this week’s email. Not subscribed yet? Link in bio.

Following along with Gab and Daniel here - Gabrielle Powell Bandicoot Pottery Daniel Lafferty

24/09/2026

A weekend with my friend Sahra, shot on film. No brief, no client, no outcome. Just the two of us in her garden and home in Cooma.

Sahra on the farm put together a violet syrup for a Hendricks cocktail, which we obviously had to drink. There were hellebores on the table she’d picked from the property. And then outside, this fairytale scene. Hundreds of bulbs pushing up through the ground in front of bare winter trees, the light ffs, so good!!

I shot the this series on 35mm film, Portra 400. I haven’t touched the colour in these, just lifted the exposure slightly. That richness is all the film.

Making time for personal work is genuinely hard. It’s the first thing that gets pushed when life is full, which it always is. But every time I actually do it I remember why I started all of this. Sahra is just as busy as I am and we had to really wrestle this weekend into existence. Worth every bit of it!

22/09/2026

Social media isn’t going anywhere. But I don’t think it’s going to look the same in five years either.

So I’m trying some other things alongside it. A local newspaper ad. Posters on notice boards. Coffee catch-ups with people I already know. A dream about printing a zine.

None of it is revolutionary. But it feels good to not have all my eggs in one basket.

I’ve been really inspired by a podcast called Off the Grid by Amelia, link in the comments. She has a free download with 100 ideas for marketing outside of social media and I highly recommend it.

If you want to read the email I sent out about this earlier this week, get on my list. Link in bio.

***And a note on what it actually takes to post something like this.

I recorded this four times. One take the microphone wasn’t picking up properly, one take I was half out of frame, one take I kept stumbling over my words. Fourth time, done.

Then I sat there playing it back, adding the captions, listening to my own voice going, do I really sound that nasal? Why did I wear that shirt? I said zine wrong again. Why am I even sharing this, does anyone actually need to hear it?

This is the reality for most people posting talking to camera content. It does get easier. But those voices don’t fully go away.

Just in case that’s useful to know.

15/09/2026

Held is an ongoing black and white film series I’ve been working on for the last two years.

I photograph women, then rewind the film and take it to a place in nature where they feel safe and connected. The two images sit on top of each other. The person and the place, held together.

This is Kirsty. She runs Camel Rock Surf School here on the Sapphire Coast and has been surfing since she was twelve. I took her portrait, then rewound the film and went to Morehead Beach. The waves, the rock shelves, Mt Gulaga.

When I asked her what the water teaches her, she said one word. Patience.

I’d love to shortlist one or two out of the series, do you have favorite? I find it interesting what resonates and doesn’t.

01/05/2026

Brenner came to me because of my personal work, not my client portfolio. For any creative, that’s a gift.

She was launching The Conservation Collage Project and knew she needed imagery to support something she felt deeply passionate about. But she was hesitant to show her face. But we’d built up a lot of trust.. so she did it anyway.

We started in her tropical backyard in the Atherton Tablelands and ended the day wading into a glowing creek in Mareeba as the sun dropped below the gum trees.

walked away with a collection of photographs and videos she loves. If you’ve been putting off a shoot because it feels like too much, send me a DM.

Honey

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Shop 8/158-162 Carp Street
Bega, NSW
2550

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http://honeyatkinson.com/

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