Meet Jannica Honey | Photographer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Jannica Honey and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Jannica, we’d love to hear what makes you happy.
Isn’t happiness like a movement, a quick breeze through your system, an elevation of something? Perhaps it is the presence, to be alive, that makes itself announced.

I am right here, existence calls on us and it is exactly this, to be present that is central in my work as a self-employed photographer and content creator. Being creative is like a daily ritual of intentions and determination. Directed energy and uttering of words. I know all this can sound like it is all about magic and spells but isn’t self-employment all that, to stay connected and always weaving your future?

Being your boss is like an everyday routine of sacrifice and commitment. Staying determined in your art and your creative process is the only way to become successful, which makes me happy. I am pleased that I can pay my bills with my income from photographing women and nature in the twilight, creating press and promo shots for musicians and forever seeing people, photographing their vision and projecting it back to them again.
Just like existence, aligned with time, humans and nature.

It is the presence that makes me happy, to join life itself through my art which became my job.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
My story started many times.I danced through sweaty crowds at great clubs in the 90s. I was holding on to my camera at dingy indie gigs in the basements of Scottish venues. There were the fine rooms of Westminster and Buckingham Palace. Empty strip clubs and Mohawk reservations in Canada. To be able to walk all these paths I can see one thing I did well. I was always honest and connected. The relationship is essential to creating powerful portraits and I knew that if I wasn’t authentic I would not be able to create genuine images of the people I approached. If you lose the connection you lose the strong photograph of another human, just like you. It wasn’t until I started When The Blackbird Sings in 2016 that the real magick unfolded. The actual connection between twilight, humans and nature. In a liminal space where everything transformed. My photography put me on a path to facilitating events and weekends talking about not the female gaze but just the gaze. The importance of being witnessed and how the lack of being seen creates a whole generation of starved people looking into their phones for verification. I started Visual Diet Witch online where I give recommendations on a healthy visual diet, you are what you eat, through your eyes.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
You should go to Rosslyn Glen, 40 min by bus outside Edinburgh. Walk the twilight, listen out for the owl and pick the wild garlic that you later on make a wild garlic pesto with. Roam the woods and get lost to find yourself again on the path up to the famous chapel.

We need nature.

If you have to eat I would suggest getting fish and chips by the harbour in North Berwick, 20 min by train outside Edinburgh. Sit by the sea, let the waves remind you of the vastness life serves and munch on your beautifully prepared meal.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
I love this, what a great part…

I was ridden with anxiety as a younger girl.
I knew I had all this creativity inside me but no tools or support to find an outlet.
The shoutout is to Pamela at The Portraits Galleries cafe in Edinburgh who responded with a simple “I think you should do it, the world needs more of Jannica” when I spoke about putting on a photography exhibition in 2001.

Website: https://www.jannicahoney.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whentheblackbirdsings_

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jannica-honey-53039b11/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JannicaHoneyPhotography

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@jannicahoney

Image Credits
Credit the twilight, humans that roamed the woods with me, my mother and especially the blackbird.