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.

She left design because it offered no freedom, unschooled her children in Spain, and found in photography the life she was looking for. Sonja Stich on imperfection, intuition, and why the limitation makes her more creative.