The Selby Is in Your Place was conceived when fashion and interiors photographer Todd Selby began taking portraits of dynamic and creative people—authors, musicians, artists, and designers—in their home environments and posting them on his web site. Nosy by nature, he wanted to see how personal style was reflected in private spaces. Lucky for us, he found his answer in the color-rich and eclectic quarters of a diverse group of subjects, including Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler, Faris Rotter, Andre Walker, and Olivier Zahm, in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, and London. Each profile is accompanied by Selby’s watercolor portraits of the subjects and objects from their homes, and illustrated questionnaires, which Selby asks each sitter to fill out. This book consists of over thirty profiles, many of which have never-before-seen, selected exclusively for the book. The result is a collection of unique spaces bursting with energy and personality that together create a colorful hodgepodge of inspirational interiors.
Todd Selby was born in California in the 1970's. He has been
gainfully employed as; a translator and Tijuana tour guide to the
International Brotherhood of Machinists, a researcher into the
California strawberry industry, as a Costa Rican cartographer, a
consultant on political corruption in Mexico, an art director at a
venture capital firm, an exotic flower wholesaler, a Japanese clothing
designer, and as a vermicomposting entrepreneur.
Todd currently lives in New York City. His current pastimes include scanning,
eating fancy cheeses, buying ipods and breaking his computers. He also
enjoys checking his email on his iphone. He is working on a personal
project shooting creative people in their spaces http://www.theselby.com which is now available as a book published by Abrams.
