"A London editorial that turns a stained glass window into a beauty story. Using coloured gels and controlled reflections, photographer Kathrin Werner and make-up artist Laura Marsh translate fractured light and layered colour onto skin, creating an ethereal, metallic finish inspired by glass itself. With model Natsumi, the shoot had no product to sell and no brief to follow — just a concept, a lot of gels, and the freedom to see where the light took the story."

I spent years in biochemistry before I picked up a camera professionally. People tend to find this surprising. Photographers aren't supposed to have pipettes in their past. But the more I work in beauty photography, the more I think the two disciplines have in common — and the more I suspect my scientific training is quietly doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Precision isn't a personality trait. It's a practice. In a lab, a misaligned variable ruins an experiment. On set, a mi