Valerie Phillips — Little Baby Nothings: Manic Street Preachers

Between 1991 and 1992, Valerie Phillips followed the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers, taking pictures. She was just starting out as a photographer and the band was still in its younger years, which gave her the perfect opportunity to figure out how to take the kind of pictures she wanted to take. Phillips photographed them at their homes, on tours, at recording sessions, video shoots, and in the weird, boring, fascinating random places along the way. According to Phillips, “These pictures were made in a daze of wide-eyed enthusiasm, wonder, magic, and mayhem. They are the beginning of our stories.” The rare photos are collected here for the first time in their entirety.