[2][3] She is involved in London leftist protest politics and is engaged to Barrett Brown.
The pictures of Mann were shot when she was between 11 and 18 years old for Exit, Purple, and Dazed in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Hill said that she first met Sylvia, "she was talking about playing Pooh sticks with her mother" and that “when she arrived for the final photographs in this series, she was a cool college girl with a severe buzz cut and multiple piercings.
One begins the teenage decade as a child and ends it as a woman, able to bear a child.”[7][8] She has written for The Independent,[9] and was the editor of Freedom, a London-based anarchist website and biannual journal published by Freedom Press.
[4] As of 2024, she is engaged to and shares a small room with Barrett Brown in Bournemouth, England at her mother's house.