I wanted to find the weight of abundance without losing its warmth. The Itelmen have millennia of relationship with Kamchatka's impossible plenty — salmon, berries, honey — while Gascony's Armagnac country knows that fermentation is just patience made visible. Her coat carries literal impressions of the comb because she's not commemorating the bees' labor, she's still receiving it. That humor in her eyes is essential: this is a woman whose problem is beautiful, and she knows it. — Lux