Music Photographer Scarlet Page Announces ‘Exposed: 3 Years With Placebo’ Book

Renowned music photographer Scarlet Page has announced the release of Exposed: 3 Years With Placebo, an intimate new black-and-white photography book capturing Placebo during the defining early years of their career. The book will be available from October 29th, 2025, via www.placeboworld.co.uk.

Spanning more than 220 previously unseen photographs, Exposed: 3 Years With Placebo offers a rare glimpse behind the curtain as the band recorded and toured their first three albums:Placebo (1996), Without You I’m Nothing (1998), and Black Market Music (2000). The collection documents the evolution of a band on the rise — raw, unfiltered, and seen through the trusted lens of a photographer who became part of their inner circle.

Page first encountered Placebo at London’s University of London Union in 1996, just before the release of their debut album.

“They were like nothing I had ever seen — sexy, sweaty, raw,” she recalls. That first live show led to a long-term collaboration, including several major editorial shoots and the now-iconic angel wings portrait of frontman Brian Molko, later acquired by the National Portrait Gallery for its permanent collection. It’s about letting the viewer into my world with the band at that time, honest, unguarded, and very real. These are fly-on-the-wall moments. No captions. No commentary. Just the images, as they were.”

Exposed: 3 Years With Placebo will be available in two formats:

Standard Edition:

• A beautifully produced silver hardcover featuring over 220 monochrome photographs.
• Limited to 1,000 copies.

Collector’s Edition

Housed in a black linen-bound box, this exclusive edition includes:

• The silver hardcover book
• A hand-finished photographic print signed by Scarlet Page
• A certificate of authenticity co-signed by Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal, and Scarlet Page

Strictly limited to 250 individually numbered copies. Both editions will ship from the official release date, October 29th, 2025. For full details and pre-orders, visit here.