Born in Lebanon, raised in Canada, she spent decades making information accessible before founding Slow Factory. Now she has written a book. Celine Semaan — war survivor, hakawati, activist — on why a woman is a school.

A disposable camera on a primary school field trip. A girl directing her classmates, choosing backgrounds with the instinct of someone who already knows. That was where it started for Melissa Schriek. The ODE series is her most personal statement yet — not a correction, not a polemic, just photography that looks at the world it actually sees.