Drizzle Honey on Your Friends
Lauranne Leunis is a photographer whose work turns inward, toward intimacy, care, and the quiet strength of everyday connection. In her series Drizzle Honey on Your Friends, she responds to a world marked by uncertainty not through spectacle, but through softness, offering a tender ode to friendship as both refuge and resistance.
In a time when “the End” seems constantly present—from climate change to wars, from misogyny to conversations about a possible Third World War, a time in which even friends’ parents are giving emergency radios as Christmas gifts—I want to focus on how we might avoid these unsettling endings. I believe that the path forward begins with trust.
That is why I return to my small world, exploring how I can hold on to and express connection within it. In Drizzle Honey on Your Friends, I do not try to directly depict today’s fears and struggles, but instead gently respond to them. Not by denying what is happening, but by making space for something else.
With this work, I offer an ode to my friends—the people who make life lighter, who briefly lift its weight. For me, capturing friendship is an act of care as well as resistance. A conscious choice to keep seeing what sustains us, even when the world feels unstable.
That is also what I hope to pass on to others: cherish and photograph the people who carry you.
Lauranne Leunis is fotografe wonend in Brussel. Via haar kunstpraktijk zoekt ze naar antwoorden, niet alleen over de wereld om haar heen, maar ook over zichzelf. Ze omarmt de tegenstrijdigheden die haar vormen, een constante evolutie waarin ze zichzelf het best omschrijft als a walking contradiction.