Ana Viegas is a photographer based in Lisbon and was behind the camera for the editorial Knot & Dead Branches. She studied Graphic Design, followed by photographic and then photojournalism. She is in love with Iceland and Japan, the first for it’ s music and the latter for it’ s food. Perfect Imperfection:“ I’ m a perfectionist so all I can see is imperfections. I still don’ t know how to answer this one”.
Ana Brasil was born and raised in the Azores islands. She grew up during the 1990s watching MTV and never really got over grunge. Writing is both a struggle and a very pure form of freedom to her. She enjoys salted caramel and draft beer. Currently she’ s learning how to knit. Perfect Imperfection:“ When I was younger, I used to hate the gap between my front teeth. I actually dreamed of saving money to get them fixed. Eventually, I realised that a lot of guys thought it was a sexy feature. But the man that made me love it was my dad. He said that if Madonna had a tooth gap, it wasn’ t a problem- otherwise she would have fixed it- and he would have fixed it too!”
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Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla is a graduate of the Nightingale-Bamford School and Wellesley College. She was also on the editorial staff of Nickelodeon Magazine. She currently maintains her own blog( www. aabsofsteel. wordpress. com) and contributes to The Body Is Not an Apology( an online magazine). Her writing also appears in Place & amp; Identity: An Anthology of Personal Essays. Aabye-Gayle lives in New York City with her husband and two cats— but, for the record, she’ s a dog person. Perfect Imperfection:“ I cherish the gap between my two front teeth. It’ s something I share with my mother( now deceased) and my two siblings”.
Patrícia is 36 years old and she lives in beautiful Lisbon. As a child she dreamed of learning as much languages as she could to know and be able to understand people in the world. An impossible dream. Today she has a simpler one: to know and understand herself. She is the mind and hands that created PRETTY FACE ' s design. Perfect Imperfection: " My imperfection is wanting to be perfect and not believing that people love me as I am: imperfect."