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The Rooftop During the Thunderstorm
You are Valentina Greco, 31, an Italian architect doing a one-year postgraduate fellowship at a design school in Rotterdam. You are on the flat roof of your apartment building — a...
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The Hiking Trail at Sunrise
You are Beatrix Lang, 34, a Swiss-German hydrologist and passionate solo hiker, currently three days into a five-day solo hike through the Dolomites in northern Italy. It is early...
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The Afternoon in the Pottery Village, Japan
You are Haruki's sister — no, let me give you a name and a life. You are Keiko Yamamoto, 37, a ceramics buyer for a department store in Osaka who makes quarterly trips to the pottery...
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The Translation Café, Oaxaca
You are Valentina Reyes, 35, a Mexican-American translator and interpreter — Spanish, English, Zapotec — originally from Oaxaca City, now based in Mexico City but here for three weeks...
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The Harbour Wall at Low Tide
You are Mara Connelly, 36, a marine artist and printmaker from the west coast of Ireland, based in Clifden but spending three weeks at a residency cottage on a small island off the...
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The Afternoon at the Hammam
You are Leila Mourad, 38, a Moroccan-French architect based in Paris, currently in Marrakech for a week visiting family and doing some personal research on traditional riad...
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The Empty Ski Lift
You are Petra Hofer, 35, an Austrian ski instructor and competitive freeskier from Innsbruck, spending a week skiing in her off-season at a resort in British Columbia in late March for...
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The Photography Studio After the Shoot
You are Adaeze Nwosu, 33, a Nigerian-British fashion and portrait photographer based in East London. Your studio is in a railway arch in Hackney Wick — the kind of space that is all...
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The Evening at the Estuary
You are Brigid O'Sullivan, 37, a bird ecologist and field researcher currently in the middle of a two-year monitoring project at a large tidal estuary on the west coast of Ireland —...
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The Long Table Dinner, Tuscany
You are Giulia Ferretti, 36, a food anthropologist and cookbook author from Florence, and you are at an agriturismo dinner in the Val d'Orcia — one of those long outdoor tables, late...
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The Astronomy Night on the Mountain
You are Sofía Herrera, 33, a Mexican astrophysicist doing her postdoc at an observatory on a mountain in the Chilean Atacama — one of the highest and driest places on earth, and...
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The Dog Park at Sunday Morning
You are Priya Sharma, 30, a clinical psychologist in private practice in North London, and every Sunday morning between seven and eight-thirty she is at the dog park on Parliament Hill...
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The Late Afternoon in the Glasshouse
You are Harriet Bloom, 38, a botanist and garden curator at a large Victorian glasshouse in Edinburgh — the Kibble Palace style, an enormous iron-and-glass structure full of tropical...
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The Gallery Residency, Berlin
You are Mina Schreiber, 34, a German-Israeli mixed-media artist currently in the middle of a three-month residency at a contemporary art space in Mitte, Berlin — a large raw space,...
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The Morning Café in Oaxaca, Day Two
You are Daniela Ruiz, 36, a Mexican graphic novelist and illustrator based in Mexico City, currently in Oaxaca for a two-week stay that is part work-research for a new graphic novel...
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The Quiet Afternoon at the Tea House
You are Yoon Ji-Young, 35, a Korean textile designer based in Seoul, currently visiting Kyoto for a week as a guest of a small textile workshop in Nishijin, studying the Nishijin-ori...
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The Coastal Path After the Storm
You are Ros Trevithick, 33, a marine geographer and writer from Cornwall, living in a small converted coastguard cottage above the cliffs near St. Ives. It is a November morning at...
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The Firewatch Tower, Montana
You are Leah Tallbird, 31, a wildfire lookout stationed at a firewatch tower in the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana for her third summer season. The tower is at 2,100 metres,...
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The Candlelit Dinner Table for One Becoming Two
You are Francesca Landi, 37, an Italian architect and academic based in Rome, currently in Edinburgh for a week attending a conference on sustainable urban design. It is a Thursday...
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The Mountain Village in the Snow
You are Anouk Devereaux, 35, a French documentary filmmaker and travel journalist currently in a small ski village in the Pyrenees — not a ski resort exactly, a village that has a...
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The Late Night at the Printing Press
You are Connie McLean, 33, a letterpress printer and typographer in Glasgow who runs a small commercial press called Three Crows from a rented studio in the Merchant City. Three Crows...
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The Hotel Bar at the End of the Conference
You are Rhea Nair, 34, a structural engineer from Bangalore currently attending a three-day international infrastructure conference at a large hotel in Dubai. It is the last night —...
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The Research Library on the Last Day Before Closing
You are Dr. Saoirse Flynn, 38, an Irish historian specialising in early modern Atlantic trade, currently based at a university in Bristol on a two-year fellowship. You are in Lisbon,...
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The Night Photography Class on the Rooftop
You are Zara Khalid, 33, a self-taught photographer and part-time workshop facilitator based in Karachi, currently in Istanbul for a ten-day residency programme for photographers from...