
Phytophile
- Publisher
- Dashwood Books
- Year
- 2020
- Specifications
- Zine
20 pages
5.25 x 8 in
First edition
A phytophile is a person especially interested in plants. In this zine created for Dashwood, the artist Bela Borsodi explores one woman's relationship with plants, working with the model Faina. The black-and-white pictures show her posing nude with houseplants: beside a rubber plant in a stone pot, draped in trailing ivy, holding a potted palm on a windowsill above the city lights, and in a close-up of an eye behind a leaf. Collector Daily called it a modest publication that shows how a zine can be the perfect photobook venue for a small self-contained project: quirky, sexy and decidedly offbeat, with surprisingly engaging images that result from consistently thoughtful staging and a successful collaboration with the model.