Stefanie Roeske, Anam Mara: Where the Song Leads Her Home (PEOPLE & PORTRAIT 2025)

The balance of poetic beauty, a Gaelic soul and narrative depth of the image. The name plays on the returning to her home, led by something sacred, her inner compass, her music, her ancestral connection. The sea is not just the backdrop of the image, but an image's mirror of one self. An ode to love, loss and the unseen road ahead - where music is the compass and home is the culture our soul remembers.

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