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I started Dossier as a rebellion against mediocrity in publishing 21 years ago. No one really thought I could keep it going. The owner of the biggest publishing house at the time looked at my first issue and told me he felt like crying for me. The industry only wants gossip rags, he told me. I had five really nasty incidents with investors, the first one went to jail for fraud, and I really did like Jabulani. He was very classy, well spoken. He wore Tom Ford. I did not see that coming. The paperwork was still on his desk when he was arrested. If he had signed the papers, I would have had to close the magazine. But it also meant that no staff got paid, and I could not cope with that. A little clinic visit before Christmas sorted that out. Another stole my revenue after doing a really good issue, another one stole an entire new magazine I launched only to close it three months later. It has been a wild ride. Bitter tears mixed with proud moments. Back stabbing mixed with failures, and then sitting in a Bentley being shuttled to the Hong Kong Ritz. It is a bipolar career. You need to be strong.

What has kept me going, was meeting the most talented people in the country and my goal was always to give credit to the multitude of creative talents we have in South Africa. That has been the catalyst which kept me going all these yearsgiving credit to creatives.

This has been the spark that ignited me to do another issue.

For this issue we gathered fourteen people together to photograph them in one day. Also a logistical challenge. Each to tell their own unique stories. They were meticulously chosen for being at the top of their game.

Nathan Reddy who naturally tells brand stories with his agency, Grid Worldwide, even creates spaces where people can knit together their own life stories. Kimberley Taylor, a little firecracker, who while still in university started the Checkers 60/60 App and even made all the men in the studio blush with her wicked sense of humour. Not at all what one expects form a brilliant IT person. Senzeni Marasela came in like royalty. Silent. Stoic. Tristan Du Plessis came with hand luggage from a plane, and planes are where he spending most of his time. Everytime I see him, I tell him I have known him since he was in the womb, as his mom was a very well known model, a client of mine, and I realise I have become that irritating auntie. But I deserve to be, I have been at this since 1984.

David Tlale entered with a presence of an emperor. Lezanne Viviers came in silently, her eyes quickly making calculations, she knew exactly how to sit, and the photos took a minute. She was precise and strong.

Marina Applebaum came in straight off a flight from Paris, greeting us with a loud and warm “hello, everyone!” Greek warmth, like we were all family. Kate Otten was meticulous about the photograph,