Jacob Pritchard photographs girls in bed. That is: girls with cats, girls with ipods, girls with their boyfriends, girls asleep and girls with books. In this new project, Pictures in Bed, he shoots aerial portraits of twenty-somethings snuggling, making out, drinking tea, reading, and twisted between their sheets and blankets. The lighting is bright and even and the frame extends so that the bed's surroundings form an even frame around the mattress.

Like a honed-in version of The Selby, where photographer Todd Selby photographs the creative and fashionable in their homes, Pritchard's project attempts to create an image of their person with this slice of their personal space. The images form a set of snapshots that suggest our beds, their order and disorder, and how we occupy them are another form of self-portrait. In Pritchard's project, we would love him branch out to a far more diverse demographic whose bodies are less posed in the motions of sleep. Theories on sleep -- the meaning of postures, how many hours we need, what it means to dream -- are abound, but what does it mean to be in bed and not be asleep? We're curious to see where Pritchard goes with this project, and who and how he finds people in bed.