Angela Hill’s book, Sylvia, is described by publisher Idea as “an exercise in simplicity” and “a perfect reflection of” Hill’s photography. Taking a single subject, Sylvia Mann, the images were shot when Mann was between 11 and 18 years old, and were originally conceived as fashion photographs for the likes of Exit, Purple, and Dazed. However, the final series is said to be about “nature and being” rather than fashion, presenting a documentary-style, singular worldview.

“When I first met Sylvia, she was talking about playing Pooh sticks with her mother,” says Hill. “When she arrived for the final photographs in this series, she was a cool college girl with a severe buzz cut and multiple piercings. One begins the teenage decade as a child and ends it as a woman, able to bear a child.”

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