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Notes on cultivating a creative life and noticing everyday magic, from a French photographer living in England.

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About Émilie

photographer, filmmaker & translator grown in france, now spreading roots in england • childfree witch • seeking quiet in between pages, over hills and under trees; finding magic everywhere.

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