Pheromone Hotbox, the first monograph by the Los Angeles-based photographer Amanda Charchian (born 1988), brings together work shot between 2012 and 2015. It circles the idea of the pheromone hotbox that occurs when a woman photographs another woman, a title Charchian lent to a 2014 group exhibition at Stephen Kasher Gallery in New York: she photographs her female artist friends in dramatic locations across the globe, including Iceland, France, Costa Rica, Morocco, Israel and Cuba. Simultaneously dreamy and erotically charged, the photographs capture the intensity and intimacy of the exchange between artist and model, from a nude woman bending in a field of wheat to a canyon river bend seen from above and a typewritten spell on graph paper.