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Todd Selby is a photographer, director, artist, author, and illustrator behind The Selby, a project showcasing creative individuals in their personal spaces. Since its inception in 2008, The Selby began as a website 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 that top companies from around the world began asking to collaborate. Todd’s editorial projects have included a monthly home column in The Observer Magazine, a monthly fashion column in Le Monde’s M Magazine, and frequent contributions to Vogue, Architectural Digest France, Casa Brutus Japan and the New York Times T Magazine. In April 2017, Todd had his first solo museum show at Daelim Museum in Seoul, South Korea where his photographs, illustrations, dioramas, and sculptures filled the entire four-story museum for six months (with over 230,000 visitors over 6 months).
Todd has authored four notable books, all published by Abrams. "The Selby is In Your Place" (2010) offers a glimpse into the homes of creative talents across various fields. "Edible Selby" (2012) delves into the culinary world's behind-the-scenes. "Fashionable Selby" (2014) captures the fashion industry's vivid personalities. His latest, "The Selby Comes Home" (2024), focuses on the inventive home lives of creative families, reflecting his own journey with fatherhood. Each book combines his distinct color soaked photography with whimsical illustrations and insightful narratives, cementing his reputation as a storyteller who celebrates the beauty in the lives of creatives.
Before working on The Selby, Todd worked as a translator and Tijuana tour guide to the International Brotherhood of Machinists, a researcher into the California strawberry industry, a Costa Rican cartographer, a consultant on political corruption to a Mexican Senator, an art director at a venture capital firm, an exotic flower wholesaler, a Japanese clothing designer, and a vermicomposting entrepreneur. Todd’s pastimes include going to the airport, eating four square meals a day and breaking his computers.
For photo & illustration commissions, film directing assignments, licensing requests (magazines and advertising), press coverage or anything else, please contact theselbystudio@gmail.com and we will loop you in with the right people!
The Selby is represented in North America exclusively by BA Reps for Photography.