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Our 'In Reflection' series is a collaboration with photographer Davy Kesey. He developed 'Reflections' as an antidote to hurried and impersonal photoshoots. At face value, it’s a one-on-one portrait series featuring prominent public figures. At its core, it’s a chance to embrace being human. More akin to a therapy session than a photoshoot, Davy aims to document a genuinely intimate moment rather than manufacture one. Hair, makeup, and styling are done beforehand. Retouching is minimal. Davy has been kind enough to share the photos with l'Odet, and we do an interview in tandem. Davy's series both mirrors and strengthens our ethos, which is to search for and portray human commonality through the interview format. Read our conversation with Grace here.

FROM NETFLIX'S "FEAR STREET 1978" AND "INSATIABLE"

Michael Provost

"I know that is where acting has become therapy for me. Are you familiar with Shanley? He’s a playwright, and he writes these brutal characters. Especially for men — absolute neanderthals, cavemen. I would say that the stage is where I first figured out release in a healthy way, with someone else. Someone who is in the situation as much as me, understands the stakes are as real as it gets in that moment, in that little black box. Then to pull out of it and have that person hug me and smile at me and tell me that it’s okay — and be with me until I come out of that…when that occurred, I was like ‘how could I not explore this more?’"

FROM PARAMORE AND GOOD DYE YOUNG

Hayley Williams

"When it really hit, I felt like such a failure. I felt embarrassed because I knew that I shouldn’t have gone through with the marriage. And we had already dealt with a lot of the heaviest parts of being a couple and why things were bad. I just hurt. I had no trust left whatsoever. I knew I shouldn’t have done it, but I did anyway; that’s why I felt like I had to stay."

STAR OF DC'S "SHAZAM!"

Grace Fulton

"But that was an insane experience auditioning for “Shazam!” with the casting director, Rich Delia. When I came in for the audition, it was just me. No one else there. And I walked into the casting room and Rich was like, “We so strongly believe this is your character and you are Mary.” And he was bringing out the comic book and he’s like, “You look just like her.” He worked the scenes with me to put me on tape for David, our director. He so believed in me. I got in my car afterward and sobbed. Because to have someone believe in you is really powerful."

FROM NETFLIX'S "AFTERMATH" THE OWN'S "DAVID MAKES MAN"

Travis Coles

"My dream for the future is that everyone who has a hunger to create reaches a desperation so strong they have no choice but to get it out and remember that they always have a voice."

FROM CW'S "ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO"

Michael Vlamis

"Comedy is my bread and butter. Comedy is probably what I do better than anything, but people don’t know me as that! They knew me as that initially and that’s why I couldn't even get an audition on "Roswell," because I was the comedy guy, and now I’m, like, the dramatic guy. [Laughs] You always have to prove to people and make them see that you can't be put in a box."

AUTHOR OF "THE MOON LISTS"

Leigh Patterson

"'The Moon Lists' started from reading an interview with photographer Sam Abell, a former National Geographic photographer who now lives in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. In the interview, he mentioned a personal project: "Every full moon, my wife and I construct something we call the Moon List — about 25 questions that have evolved over 10 years or so to reconstruct the past 30 days since the last full moon." I wrote to Abell, requesting to see the questions on his list...and for permission to recreate his idea through the perspectives of different contributors. He kindly obliged."

ARTIST AND MUSICIAN

Bel

"It’s important to know that living creatively does not diminish your intelligence, it just means you’re using it in a different way. In an interpersonal manner, you must register the fact that you’re not a freak, and that you deserve recognition for your passions amongst a group of people who may disagree."

FROM NETFLIX'S "THE SOCIETY" AND HBO'S "THE MARE OF EASTTOWN"

Jack Mulhern

[On "The Society"] "The entire story is about how we design, interact, and create the greatest good between all of us. The most cohesive system for us to live. And it's about — if we start from square one, with kids — if they'll repeat the same mistakes that previous generations have. If the same social ills and violence, the same kind of segregation, and all of that will repeat itself with these kids. And we're just starting that. So the idea with [my] character is he's this pacifist. He's completely against being put in positions to dictate other people's livelihoods. He doesn't feel like a leader whatsoever. I think it'd be really interesting — specifically because the way that he sees the world is certainly in conflict with the forces taking over power going into the second season – to see what sort of begrudging figurehead for a nonviolent, counterrevolutionary movement would look like, played over the course of the seasons. You know what I mean? I think that's what I'd be really interested in, going more in an ideological direction that just survival. Seeing how these kids try to figure out, repeat the same patterns, have the same habits — that we have throughout human history. And see if we can come up with something better or just kill each other in the process."

FOUNDER OF MAUDE

Éva Goicochea

"My hope is that maude is so matter of fact and friendly and easy, that people get to just sit with the idea of sex and decide what it means for them, instead of us dictating and talking to them and pandering to them. I just want it to be this brand that promotes the idea of ‘okay, this is just biology — and however I feel about this is a product of how I was raised or what I've been around, but my relationship with my own body is fundamentally biological, and it's okay.’"

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Our commonality is the need to connect over shared experience — l'Odet is our pursuit for that commonality through a series of uncontrived, intimate interviews conducted by our founder.

Midnight Woman is an online platform that welcomes contributors of all kinds to submit personal experiences anonymously.

Our commonality is the need to connect over shared experience — l'Odet is our pursuit for that commonality through a series of uncontrived, intimate interviews conducted by our founder.

Midnight Woman is an online platform that welcomes contributors of all kinds to submit personal experiences anonymously.

Our commonality is the need to connect over shared experience — l'Odet is our pursuit for that commonality through a series of uncontrived, intimate interviews conducted by our founder.