ANNE BARLINCKHOFF In 2016, Anne Barlinckhoff graduated from the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her final project ‘Dreams of Paradise’ left a deep impression on me at the time. When Mary asked me to write a column for this women’s issue, I instantly thought of that picture. It’s an image that, for me, depicts a woman in all her power and beauty. She partly grew up in Africa, and during a vacation she got a throw-away camera and a seed was planted. Because her connection to Africa has persevered, the continent forms a strong red line throughout her oeuvre. By now, Anne works for clients like Dazed and Confused, I-D, Levi’s, Vice and Vogue. For Tony’s Chocolonely she travelled to Ghana and the Ivory Coast to make some free work with a focus on the cacao industry. Her healthy obsession with women and the human body (as she herself described it in a recent interview) is visible in almost all of her work. This is more relevant than ever, since the time of men – and the distorted image of women they created – is over. The future is female.