I’ve been following Olivia Bee’s work since the days of Flickr. Her photography has an earthy grainy 70’s quality I love. She was ridiculously talented even as a teen and her first book, Kids in Love, was an instant classic. The book channels the feeling of being a teenager somewhere out in America in a time before everyone was glued to their phones. It reminds me that we were once obsessed only with each other and how that world felt intensly lived. 

Now a decade or so later she and her husband run a farm in Oregon. She continues to make evocative editorial and personal work, and still seems intensely connected to her people and the land around her.