Send me a lullaby is a love letter to a city undergoing immense change, created during a period of both urban transformation and global upheaval. Emma Phillips was commissioned by Photo Australia to make a photographic portrait of Melbourne in the lead up to PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography. The resulting project — the first book in the PHOTO Editions series — is a reflection on connection, navigation and time, and the constantly evolving relationship between people and place. Phillips' photographs contemplate urban, domestic and psychological space, interwoven with portraits of people she encountered in Melbourne across different seasons, capturing a living city as it responds to catastrophic bushfires and a pandemic. These disparate photographs construct a dialogue between the city's component parts — homes, shops, parks, streets — with archaeological objects from beneath the city, bookended with rambling, confessional-style text that Phillips describes as an invitation against solitude.