First off I would like to say that the Hamster is cool. Secondly, and perhaps more seriously, I love the narrative images that are in Jessica's book. Her images seem to tell some kind of story (not in a linear sense - but each image in itself). I think that the environments that she chooses are interesting, they describe everyday scenes and everyday people/objects that are very easy to identify with - but at the same time could also be another time and another life far removed from my own.

Most of all I enjoyed viewing these photographs and might even by them - which is the best accolade I think I can give them.

At first glance, I instantly realised that this book will focus on the duties mainstream forces upon the individual. Behind the idea of simplicity that veils the student's life comes complexity. And here, Jessica Kril provides lurid photographs covering the main social (and maybe moral) implications of studying and living in the big city. From sharing an accomodation to food, hygiene to love, cultures to cuisine... overall a well organized and architectured photobook that I would classify in a genre called Urban. A simple yet complex Urban Myth depicted here in style through her eyes. Definitely not an in-depth journey but covered the surface of things vividly! More than enough if in quest of strong stand-alone or series of photographs of life in London.