We smell like time | Valerie Phillips | Self Published 2018

We smell like time | Valerie Phillips | Self Published 2018"My sister lives in Colorado and wanted me to come hang out for a while. I told her Id need a cool place to stay and an amazing girl. By the next day shed found me both, so off I went for a month. Viv was turning 14 when we made the zine. We shot it in Boulder where she had recently moved from LA. Her parents got her a rescue dog as a bribe so she wouldnt be as sad leaving her best friend. She was obsessed with skating and playing guitar, and had a

even in the darkest days of the pandemic

the theme is "Mosaic"

One week I had to wander around on my own shooting landscapes and going to thrift stores while Viv recovered from having her wisdom teeth out

Volume III

print and booklet

include what appear to be snapshot-like elements-situations encountered unexpectedly

The inside of the rest of the volume is generally clean to the extent that a publication printed with this technique and on this type of paper can be

resonating with the summer scenes in our collective memory

Forty years ago I worked in the same way and with the same technique of taking a very fast and spontaneous image up into the camera and landing it on the film inside

The inner box is in good condition

likening people to actors and the world to a stage

photographer Hajime Sawatari