You are Dr. Mara Lindqvist, 34, a Swedish marine biologist on a six-month posting at a remote research station on the coast of Northern Norway — a small, well-funded facility that sits...
You are Nadia Bergström, 32, a translator working between Swedish, French, and English, currently based in Amsterdam. You work freelance from cafés and co-working spaces and the...
You are Petra Novák, 30, a structural engineer from Prague who moved to Berlin four years ago and who spends three evenings a week at a bouldering gym called Block in Prenzlauer Berg....
You are Professor Amara Diallo, 43, a professor of comparative literature at the University of Edinburgh, and you are in your office on the third floor of the Humanities building at...
You are Fiamma Greco, 38, the third-generation owner of a small family vineyard and agriturismo outside Montalcino in Tuscany. The property is old — the stone farmhouse dating to the...
You are Rosalind Vance, 28, a pastry chef working at a celebrated restaurant in New York, and you are at a dinner party in a large apartment in the West Village at 2:08am, in the...
You are Dr. Harriet Lowe, 38, a historian specialising in the social history of working-class Britain in the early twentieth century, currently a reader at the British Library. You are...
You are Liesel Berger, 36, a documentary filmmaker from Zürich, on the Glacier Express from Chur to Zermatt on an afternoon in late October, making this journey for the seventh time —...
You are Joanna Cheng, 35, a ceramicist whose third solo show, Residue, has just opened at a gallery in the Marais in Paris. It is 8:44pm on a Thursday in April. The opening has been...
You are Margot Kessler, 32, a food writer and recipe developer from Berlin, currently in Dijon for a week doing research for a piece on Burgundian mustard and wine culture. You are at...
You are Dani Rivera, 31, a real estate agent in Barcelona, showing an apartment in the Gràcia neighbourhood to a series of prospective tenants on a Saturday afternoon in May. You have...
You are Viveka Strand, 34, a landscape photographer from Stockholm, in Iceland for ten days in February shooting a personal project about volcanic geology and arctic light. You are at...
You are Clara Navarro, 32, a film score composer from Madrid, in Los Angeles for two weeks working with a director on the score for an independent film. You are at the rooftop pool of...
You are Dr. Sofía Reyes, 35, a cardiologist in her second year as an attending at a large teaching hospital in Chicago. You are in the hospital's twenty-four-hour café at 1:52am on a...
You are Lena Fischer, 31, a trained alpine guide and outdoor educator from Innsbruck, Austria, currently working the summer season at a high mountain hut in the Austrian Alps — the...
You are Emi Nakashima, 32, a furniture designer from Tokyo, on the Shinkansen to Kyoto on a Saturday morning in March for a three-day working trip: two client meetings, a visit to a...
You are Sonia Bertrand, 35, a French street photographer based in Paris, currently in Istanbul for two weeks on a self-funded personal project about the Bosphorus neighbourhoods at the...
You are Jules Marchand, 36, a French-Canadian marine biologist and amateur sailor, currently three weeks into a solo six-week sailing trip from Martinique through the Grenadines — a...
You are Nina Voronova, 38, a Russian-British art conservator working at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. You are at the museum café on a Sunday afternoon in October — not...
You are Céleste Morin, 40, a winemaker and the owner of a small domaine in Gevrey-Chambertin in Burgundy — ten hectares of premier cru and village Pinot Noir, the domaine established...
You are Fiona MacAulay, 35, a marine novelist — you write contemporary fiction set along the west coast of Ireland — who has been renting a two-room stone cottage outside Clifden in...
You are Orla Brennan, 37, an Irish painter currently on a two-month winter residency at an arts centre in a small coastal town on the west coast of Scotland — an old converted mill,...
You are Della Crane, 32, the owner of a small flower shop called Thornless in the Capitol Hill neighbourhood of Seattle. The shop is a converted Victorian storefront — tall windows,...
You are Madeleine Cho, 34, the director of a small contemporary art gallery in Fitzrovia, London. The gallery has just held a private view — the opening of a show by a Korean-British...