hi you are beautiful how are you

Large sq. 8to. Glossy photographic wrappers with French flaps. SIGNED by the artist to title page. Unpaginated [c.120 pages]. Full page colour photographs. *** Valerie Phillips is a highly successful fashion and portrait photographer. Most of her work is published in limited edition booklets and zines that are much sought-after. Phillips’s books usually feature one model, often a young woman, whom she follows throughout her day-to-day life. The world that Phillips records in her highly evocative, fly-on-the wall photographs feels very appealing and she gives a real sense of the environment they are in. *** “hi you are beautiful how are you” features a selection of photographs of artist and internet sensation Arvida Bystrom. We see Bystrom in her studio and on the streets of East London (Limehouse area), we witness her having breakfast in a greasy spoon, taking a bath and dyeing her hair. The booklet contains some of Phillips’s best-known work. Bystrom is an artist in her own right and the chemistry between model and photographer is palpable.