to hope is to gamble

Luna, Ava and Lovis grew up together around their creative parents. We were lucky to meet them in Paris and Zürich where Horst Diekgerdres photographed them and Anastazija Barbieri styled them. 

Horst Diekgerdes is Lovis´ dad and they both live together in Zürich. Lovis just finished Art school and is thinking about what’s next for her. 

Anastazija Barbieri is Ava´s mother. Ava just left her home in Paris for university in Lausanne where she is studying Photography. 

Luna is a friend of both of them, and we met her in Paris at her mother´s apartment and some of her favourite spots. She lives in Berlin, where she studies Art and Philosophy.

We love how much these young women inspire. To meet them is to hope.

“To hope is to gamble. It’s to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.”

Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

Thank you Otto Diekgerdres for assisting your father. Nicolo Philippon and Mayumi Oda for doing hair and make-up in Paris, Rachel Annies Bredie for grooming Lovis in Zürich and Tobias for producing and making all these favourite spots really happen. It is so nice to work with such feelings, thank you all.