Featured: The Creative Ambassadors Project Permanently Installed at the T-Building in Jamaica, Queens, NY. The Creative Ambassadors Project celebrates creative youth from underserved communities by photographing them in editorial-style portraiture based on their creative career aspirations. (See Below)
SOCIAL IMPACT EDITORIAL-STYLE POTRAITURE:
VISUAL STORYTELLING ROOTED IN IDENTITY, DIGNITY, AND COMMUNITY
Pri The Honeydark, founder of Honeydark Creative Studios, is an award-winning photographer, music artist, educator, and multi-hyphenate visual artist. This featured collection highlights her primary focus: social impact editorial-style portraiture, a practice that combines thoughtful storytelling with the polished aesthetics of editorial & avant-garde portraiture. Pri centers real people and marginalized voices, while exploring identity, care, and cultural narrative through powerful visual storytelling. Although Pri occasionally accepts commissioned work, her core practice is rooted in creating socially impactful photography and expanding an evolving archive of community-based projects. Click any image below to explore full projects and selected works.
INSTAGRAM: @THEHONEYDARK
Project Highlight
Pass the Crown: Voices & Memory
This video features footage of an interactive photo series prototype installation called Pass the Crown: Voices & Memory, created by multi-hyphenate artist & photographer, Pri the Honeydark. Pass the Crown is an editorial photo series honoring BIPOC individuals living with dementia. The series was inspired by Pri's late grandmother who passed away from dementia. A few weeks prior to her passing, Pri photographed her wearing a gold crown. That very crown is now being passed from model to model within this dementia photo series, as a symbol of honor and perseverance. For the new prototype of this series, Pri has added donated family photos and momentos to the portraits and activated those momentos using interactive AR technology. Viewers are able to scan the images with their mobile devices and watch the stories of each featured dementia model come to life via animations, and audio elements! The photo series was installed at Culture Lab LIC, NY in June 2025 in honor of Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month. Pri's goal was to see how viewers would respond to this prototype, as well as test a creative theory of using AR & machine learning ethically to tell stories of the marginalized combined with photography. Pass the Crown was on exhibit until July 27th, 2025, but the success of the exhibition has allowed it to be extended to August 31st, 2025!
Selected Works
The collection below showcases a range of social photography projects—from socially engaged series that center marginalized voices to creative explorations of identity, style, and storytelling. Each body of work reflects Pri’s commitment to using visual art as a powerful tool for empowerment, imagination, and cultural dialogue.
Click any image below to explore the full project and selected works:
Pass the Crown: An editorial style portrait project honoring people of color living with Dementia
The Creative Ambassadors Project: Empowering our underserved NYC creative youth.
The Crown and Glory Project
Forms of RESISTANCE!
