Amber is for Caution is an exhibition of photographs by Valerie Phillips based on her interest in Amber, a young girl she met when she came to her studio for a model casting.
'She was quiet and feisty at the same time, and kind of bratty and fascinating. I loved her slow-paced, drawn out Kentucky sentences, so perfectly out of place in East London. And I really liked how she didn’t seem to give a shit. She was just Amber and that was good enough.'
However Amber decided to cut her hair off, quit her modelling career and move back to Kentucky, and Valerie Phillips decided to document this to see how it changed her personality and apperance, giving a personal insight to Amber's unpredictable nature and 'couldn't give a shit' attitude.
This particular image, with text reading 'Amber is gonna show you what a little girls made of...gun powder'. The image shows Amber jokingly posing for the camera with her fingers up, instantly reflecting her personality and attitude towards life. She is standing in front of a house which could be hers, giving the fingers up pose a context of possibly being a 'fuck you' to her previous modelling career, showing that she was happy to return home. The image had been overlayed with a colour block, as have several other images in the series. All the colours a bright and eye-catching, again being a reflection of Amber's punchy personality that comes through in the portraits of her. The text could be interpreted as a reference to Amber's personal social networking sites, it seems to be phrased in a Facebook style status update, especially with the reference to herself in first person. Also the fact that her name is written in a dark blue text has links with the facebook style of text and colouring. This could be to show Amber's highly social and typical teenage life, as social networking sites such as Facebook are a way to express and show her personality as much as she does in the photographs.
Again, this image has similar connotations with the expressive poses showing her fun personality and attitude,the bright poppy colour overlay also reflecting this and the facebook style status update reference in the text. This image shows more of a reference to popular teenage culture with the use of MGMT's song lyrics. This shows Amber being in touch with her teenage culture and shows that she expresses herself and personality through social networking style websites.
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