Trouble with Amelia: An Inside Look at a Man's World Through a Woman's Eyes Book

Amelia Troubridge's photographs of men explore male fantasies-of cars, power, money, life on the wild side, crime, celebrity, war, and rock music. The men-bad boys, artists, pop stars, mobsters, actors-come from different cultures, are celebrities or unknown kids off the street, but all share a taste for freedom. From a marijuana farmer in Amsterdam, to musicians from Motörhead and Blur, from Bill Clinton to Hugh Hefner, Troubridge photographs the men who walk the line and live life at a relentless pace.

Troubridge's photographs scratch below the surface, revealing the fears, hopes, and fragility of the male character-and of the world that shapes it-in brilliantly observed background detail. The photographs were taken around the world-in Columbia, Argentina, Rio, Texas, Los Angeles, New York-and around Europe, both east and west-Belgrade, London's Soho, Malta, Paris, Glasgow, Geneva-and for this book they have been sequenced to tell a powerful story.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Amelia Troubridge was born in 1974 in London, England. She studied history and politics in London, receiving an honors degree in 1995. She began working as a photographer for the Evening Standard in 1996. Her first major story, "Dublin's Urban Cowboys," won the Ian Parry Award for Young Photographer of the Year at the 1997 Nikon Press Awards. In 1999 she was nominated as Young Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography in New York. Her work has been published in Esquire, Tatler, GQ, The Sunday Times, the Observer, Dazed and Confused, The Financial Times, and other publications in the US and UK.