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Photographer, director, and bestselling author Todd Selby captures the wildly creative family homes of forty-one artists, writers, makers, and designers in The Selby Comes Home.. For the past two decades, Todd Selby has traveled around the world, photographing people in their spaces. He has captured the lives of various quirky individuals in three books: The Selby Is in Your Place, Edible Selby, and Fashionable Selby. Along the way, he got married and became a father. As his personal life shifted to focus on family, he became more interested in how creatives find ways to incorporate children into their spaces. . The Selby Comes Home explores a new dimension of inspiration by looking at unique families and their vibrantly colorful homes. Complete with Selby's signature questionnaires, whimsical illustrations, and inventive design, The Selby Comes Home inspires anyone who lives with family, pets, roommates, or just their own chaotic selves to find beauty and joy in their spaces.
About the Author
Todd Selby is a portrait, interiors, and fashion photographer and illustrator. His project The Selby offers an insider's view of creative individuals in their personal spaces with an artist's eye for detail. The Selby began in June 2008 as a website, www.theselby.com, where Todd posted photo shoots he did of his friends in their homes. Requests quickly began coming in daily from viewers all over the world who wanted their homes to be featured on the site. The Selby's website became so influential - with up to 100,000 unique visitors daily - that within months, top companies from around the world began asking to collaborate.
These joint projects have included a large ad campaign and web project with Nike, collaborations with Louis Vuitton and Hennessy, a solo show at colette, international ad campaigns, work for Casa Brutus, The New York Times T Magazine, Le Monde M Magazine and the London Observer. Todd's first book, The Selby is In Your Place (April 2010) focuses on creative people such as authors, musicians, artists and designers in their homes and the second called Edible Selby (October 2012) focuses on the kitchens, gardens, homes and restaurants of the most dynamic figures in the culinary world. The third book in the 'Selby' series, Fashionable Selby, will be released in March 2014 and will explore the kaleidoscopic world of fashion, featuring profiles of today's most interesting designers, stylists, haberdashers, models, shoemakers, and more.
