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ISABELLA STÅHL Layer up before stepping aboard this snow-dusted Noah’s ark.
Where did you grow up? I was born in northern Sweden and grew up in a Stockholm suburb from age two to six. My family moved back north when I was going to start preschool at a small village called Järvsö. It has a population of about 4,000 and is surrounded by nature. When I was 15 I moved back to Stockholm on my own.
How does nature influence your photos? Since I grew up surrounded by nature it’s been normal for it to be part of my photography. I think it influenced me in the way that it’s something I can rest my eyes on for a bit, in between moments of stress and anxiety and everything that’s distracting in life.
Where do you live now and what do you like about it? I live in Paris at the moment. It’s a beautiful city, I like the architecture and that it has a wide selection of art and culture as well as beautiful parks and cozy cafes.
What do you like about photographing animals? Most animals are not aware of the photo being taken so approaching them feels natural and not staged – it feels sincere, which I appreciate. I always loved animals and I think they make good models. There are so many different creatures in the world and I feel they are worth admiring.
What made you want to first pick up a camera? I guess I’ve always been fascinated by photography and the way it’d make me feel, the ability to freeze a moment to later look back at and to play with light and shadows to create a certain mood. My dad photographed a lot when he was young so I think I always had it in the back of my mind. When I was going to choose a main subject in high school, photography came as a natural first choice.
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What’s the most rewarding thing to capture in a photo? To be able to capture and keep a moment with you forever is, for me, pretty rewarding itself. It can be anything you think is worth capturing: unreal beauty and nostalgia, a certain movement or the light hitting something at the exact right moment.
What’s your worst habit? Thinking too much about the past and stressing out about things. What was the last thing you took a photo of? A white German Shepherd at a bar here in Paris. What’s on your to-do list for 2016? Creating a photo book, shooting more and getting my projects together. But I’m not much for to-do lists to be honest, they can be stressful and when you don’t accomplish everything on the list it makes you feel bad. isabellastahl.com and @isabella.stahl
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Ayar Kuo captures a traditional Yakutian cleansing ritual that’s about so much more than clearing your pores. WORDS LIZ SCARF PHOTOS AYAR KUO
There’s no shame in a little homesickness. We’ll be the first to admit to crying through our fair share of school camps and slumber parties. When Ayar Kuo moved away from her home, the photographer decided to do something more productive than throwing a tantrum. Patiently shot over the course of five years, Kuo has been re-evaluating home by documenting the annual pagan cleansing rituals that go on in Yakutia. Never heard of Yakutia? Prepare to have your pub trivia skills super-sized with a little geography lesson. Also known as Sakha Republic, Yakutia is a federal subject of Russia that can be found in the far east of Siberia. Only a fraction smaller than the whole of India, Yakutia might be the biggest country you’ve never heard of. Once a year, the locals gather together to perform rituals that bring them closer to their deities and purge themselves of all the bitterness, illness and sad face emoji that have accumulated. Like a piece of mystical fishing line, constantly felt but never seen, this tradition helps to bolster the local’s connection to their surroundings. Over the course of three days and three nights, they dance and give thanks until the final greeting of the sun where they stand facing the horizon with arms outstretched and the sunrays clean them. Not since O Brother, Where Art Thou? has anyone so vividly captured the ethereal quality of a spiritual ritual. Using the lens of her camera for a little extra courage, the naturally introverted Kuo went out to explore the world, cultivating her curiosity and ours. Her latest photography series takes us along for the ride as the talented shutterbug rediscovers the magic of her homeland and documents some of its traditions.
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WINTER ALL-STARS Better than a blanket, more delightful than a doona, these delicious winter recipes will bring the cosy with a capital C. 84
WORDS & PHOTOS JULIA BUSUTTIL NISHIMURA
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CINNAMON BUNS WITH CRÈME FRAÎCHE ICING Makes 12
These buns are utterly delicious and make for the perfect afternoon treat or sweet breakfast – slathered with a crème fraîche icing, they look amazing too. They’re best eaten the day they are made, so you can always bake half of the buns that day and leave the other half in the fridge and bake the following day. 250ml milk, warmed 7g dry active yeast 110g unsalted butter, melted, plus extra for greasing 2 eggs 100g caster sugar 425g flour, plus extra for dusting 50g cornflour pinch of salt CINNAMON FILLING 150g unsalted butter, softened 35g caster sugar 50g brown sugar 1tbsp ground cinnamon ICING 125g crème fraîche 180g pure icing sugar
Dissolve the yeast in warm milk in a large bowl. Add the melted butter, eggs and sugar. Mix well so that it is thoroughly combined. Sieve over the flour and cornflour and add a pinch of salt. Mix until combined and cover with a cloth and leave in a warm environment for one hour or until doubled in size. Knock back the dough and then allow to prove for another hour. The dough should have again doubled in size. Dust a clean bench with a little extra flour and turn the dough onto the bench. Gently roll the dough out to form approximately a 45cm x 45cm square. Mix the ingredients for the cinnamon filling together and spread it over the rolled dough in an even layer. Roll the dough, starting with the edge closest to you, as tightly as you can, to form a log. Pinch the edges to seal them tight. Using a sharp knife cut the dough into 12 equal rolls. Grease an oven-proof dish with a little butter and sit the buns snugly into the dish, cut side facing up so you can see the beautiful scroll shape. You can distribute them into two dishes if you don’t have one big enough. Leave the buns to prove once more, for about an hour, or until doubled in size. If you don’t want to bake them straight away, pop them in the fridge and allow them to prove overnight. Bring them out at least an hour before you want to bake so they can come back to room temperature. During the final 30 minutes of the buns proving, preheat the oven to 180°C. Cook the buns for 25-35 minutes. They should be golden and just cooked to ensure they remain soft and a little gooey inside. Cool the buns for a few minutes in the pan. For the icing, mix the crème fraîche and icing sugar together until smooth. Drizzle over the warm buns and serve.
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YÁNSÈ PHOTOS BEN SULLIVAN FASHION KAILA MATTHEWS
This page left to right: Ruby: Lucilla Gray coat, $1,100. Asos top, $32. Jac+ Jack T-shirt, $80. Vale jeans, $220. Vans trainers, from Platypus Shoes, $119.95. Yaya: Georgia Alice top, $515, and pants, $615. Vans trainers, from Platypus Shoes, $119.95. Chandra: I Love Mr. Mittens knit, $675.
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Keep it fresh with five different styles for your face and your locks PHOTOS JAMES TOLICH MAKE-UP ISABELLA SCHIMID
HAIR by Brad Mullins for Alan White Anthology 1. Prep hair by lightly spraying GHD Heat Protecton Spray, $24, to mid-length to ends of hair. 2. Work a five-cent piece worth of Kevin. Murphy Anti Gravity, $38.95, into the hair and then work Kevin.Murphy Anti Gravity, $38.95, into root area 3. Use GHD Aura Professional Hairdryer, $250, to dry most of the moisture out of hair. 4. Where needed, wrap random pieces of hair around the GHD Curve Soft Curl Tong, $230. 5. Gently tease roots, in large sections, with YS Park 150 Voluminising Teasing Comb, $28.95. MAKE-UP 1. Prep skin with Josie Maran Argan Oil Infinity Cream, $44. 2. Apply M.A.C Studio Water Weight Foundation, $54. 3. Define brows with Benefit Brow Zing, $55, and Gimme Brow Volumizing Gel, $39.
FASHION BASSIKE JUMPER, $550. KAREN WALKER NECKLACE, $2,569. LEFT, GEORGIA ALICE TOP, $459. BASSIKE TOP (WORN UNDERNEATH), $130. SARAH & SEBASTIAN EARRING, $1,350.
HAIR by Brad Mullins for Alan White Anthology 1. Loosely pull hair back, then using some black wig weaving thread, $4.40, tie a distorted messy ponytail. 2. Secure using a few Y.S Park Leaf Wave Spring Pins, $39.99. MAKE-UP 1. Prep skin with Josie Maran Argan Oil Infinity Cream, $44. 2. Apply M.A.C Studio Water Weight Foundation, $54. 3. Define brows with Benefit Brow Zing, $55 and Gimme Brow Volumizing Gel, $39.
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Sidle in to the sharehouse of Mon, Woody and Jeff to perve on its slightly erotic stained-glass windows. PHOTOS BRI HAMMOND
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Home Sweet Home It is a 19th-century rambling Victorian terrace. It comes with beautiful but purely decorational fireplaces in each room, pine floorboards, and a kitchen that looks like a swedish ski lodge. It contains an eclectic collection of items left behind from previous generations of Berry residents. These include: unusual lamps, vases, a set of walking stilts, a bugle and a ladybird kettle. There are high ceilings with ornate painted ceiling roses. It has two courtyards, one smoking and one non-smoking, 10 doors and a set of slightly erotic stained glass windows. House Roll Call Mon has lived in all the major cosmopolitan cities of the world – Melbourne, Frankston, Paris. When she’s not working with her Monochrome Coffee Co. peeps she’s dancing to Robyn over a negroni with Woody. Jeff has lived in Melbourne for just over three years now and before that Perth. He’s an illustrator by trade and loves it to bits. He always finds time for a robust morning coffee and a well put together omelette. Caitlin generally answers to Woody. She currently works in her dream job at Project Rockit, a social enterprise that runs workshops tackling bullying, hate and prejudice in Aussie schools Most Contentious Item The sofa. It looks good but that’s all it’s good for. Best & Worst Bits Of Flatting Best: You hear everything. You have an insight into lives that are so different to your own. You get to share experiences with them. Worst: You hear everything.
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