Did we mention we're doing a photography competition with Ctrl.Alt.Shift? Here we meet one of our all-star mentors and favourite photographers Valerie Phillips.Valerie Phillips lives in London, shooting for record labels, magazines and advertising clients. Her photos are beautiful, honest and supremely natural. She manages to regularly blur the lines between her commercial and artistic work. Valerie loves making books and has published four to date, the most recent titled 'I Can't Believe a Girl is Playing me Metallica'. She also likes horses, the moon, and running her art project disguised as a skateboard outfit, the Cherryvale Skateboard Company.So that's that. To find out more about the Gender, Power & Poverty photography competition go here.