The Selby (http://www.theselby.com/) is looking for Second Life houses to photograph for his blog. We are trying to find locations that express the owner's individuality and creativity, places that are unique and personal.
Anyone who is interested in participating in this project should send three to five screenshots of their house to todd @ theselby.com along with contact information. If we choose your house, we will be in touch to arrange the shoot of your avatar and your house.
About The Selby:
”Todd Selby is becoming a kind of Horst of the hip set.” –The New York Times
“When shooting a portrait for a magazine, a photographer generally tries to capture a single iconic moment through their subject's expression. Wouldn't an authentic look at the person through a revealing look at the environment in which they choose to live be that much better? Their books, artwork, personal collections, furniture, and pets, are just a few of the myriad items that describe and reflect who people really are.” –Todd Selby on the “The Selby is in your Place”
The Selby is in your Place started in June 2008 with this simple premise: exploring the ways one’s personal space reflects one’s personality and documenting creative people in their creative environments.
Todd set out to photograph and document his friends in their respective environments on a daily basis and began recording these sessions on his website, aptly named The Selby (www.theselby.com). Friends were soon followed by friends of friends —authors, actors, curators, directors, painters, performers and designers, all filmed and photographed in their odd, fun, quirky, bohemian, clean, colorful, messy, irreverent, intimate, and always surprising spaces. By mid-summer, the site was garnering up to 35,000 hits a day, its subjects spanning New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Philadelphia, Mexico, Sydney and London.
With an artist's eye for detail, The Selby offers an insider's view of creative people in their creative spaces.
Free of heavy cosmetic touch-ups and staged sets, each session becomes a collaborative experience where subjects spontaneously assist in art directing the shoot, and often find themselves telling stories about their favorite things before a small video camera. As such, a session typically unfolds over the course of a few hours, incorporating both film and photographic elements, and leading up to a candid handwritten Q&A conversation between Todd and his subject, always touching on interests and quirky anecdotes during the session. The hand written conversation is later scanned and posted online, along with the photographs and the video recording. A watercolor rendition of the person will then complete the portrait.
Current editorial collaborators include French Vogue, Vogue Hommes International and The New York Times T Magazine. Abrams is publishing a 300 page book of The Selby’s work that will be released worldwide April 2010.