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Golden honey dripped over naked models to create interesting sculptures

An award-winning, Los Angeles-based photographer, Blake Little has gained quite a reputation for being a favourite amongst celebrities, household name brands and some of the world's largest publications. He has worked with the likes of Steve Carell, Samuel L. Jackson and Gwyneth Paltrow, to name but a few, and has photographed for magazines such as Entertainment Weekly, People and TIME.

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All images courtesy of Blake Little

All images courtesy of Blake Little

In his latest work entitled Preservation, and now documented in a new book, Blake pours golden honey over several naked subjects and then captures them on camera to preserve them forever, almost as though they were encased for millions of years in amber.

As explained further in the book's foreword by Kenneth Lapatin, associate curator of Antiquities at J. Paul Getty Museum: "He [Blake] was amazed by honey's transformations when dripped, dribbled, and poured over the human body, and how it can distort and amplify forms, highlight physical perfection, engender repulsion, and suggest both immortality and death.

"For Blake, gleaming, golden honey has a way of diffusing the personal qualities of his subjects, often making them unrecognisable, democratising their traits into something altogether different and universal. Sometimes terrifying, it can encase his subjects, almost larvae-like in primordial ooze."

Two nude figures coated in glossy amber honey, with golden liquid dripping from their heads against a grey background, from photographer Blake Little's Preservation series
Rear view of a nude male figure covered in dripping golden honey and amber-coloured resin against a dark background, from Blake Little's Preservation series
Seated figure coated entirely in glistening golden honey against a dark background, from Blake Little's Preservation series
A figure coated in golden honey with eyes closed and long blonde hair dripping, photographed against a dark background from Blake Little's Preservation series
A figure with arms outstretched dripping with golden honey from head to toe against a black background, creating long strands that fall downward
Translucent amber resin encases a male figure in profile, with coloured patterns visible beneath the surface, created by photographer Blake Little for his Preservation series
Bearded man with honey dripping across his head, face and chest against a dark background, from Blake Little's Preservation series
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