Natacha Horn began as a journalist. Then came digital animation, a passion for directing, and SWING — an abstract short film about everyday abuse that won Best Newcomer Director at the London Independent Film Festival on its first outing. In 2026 she made something more personal still: an anti-documentary portrait of Tanita Tikaram, her wife and collaborator, delivering in her own words a raw account of life as a brown, queer woman in the UK.

She went to Indonesia to expose a shark fishing market. She went back to offer those men an alternative. Madison Stewart — aka Shark Girl — on Project Hiu, Valerie Taylor, and refusing to lose her ocean home. 🦈

She founded one of the first publications for the Arab fashion world at 24, edited Condé Nast's Middle East launch, wrote a novel for Gallimard, and is raising a son while ghost-following every Bachelor contestant. Sofia Guellaty is a lot. ✨

Curtains closing, flash four times, waiting for the print — and a mischievous obsession that finally led to a fotomaton business in Spain. Leila on why the photo booth never died. 🎞️