EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & FOUNDER

Lex Duff is a film photojournalist, travel writer and the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Epicurean Dispatch. Her work explores place, memory and sensuality through a distinctly tactile, romantic lens.

She has contributed to publications including The Irish Times, YOLO Journal, Women’s Health UK, Harper’s Bazaar, Condé Nast Traveller, Mr & Mrs Smith, Small Luxury Hotels’ Swoon, Belmond and Four Seasons, photographing and writing across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe — and everywhere in between.

VISUAL ARTIST & PHOTOGRAPHER

Nurtured by the landscapes of Lake Como, Giacomo Gandola is a visual artist and photographer whose work navigates the space between contemporary art and visual storytelling. His aesthetic is minimal yet dense with intensity, focusing on the margins of observation and the quiet resonance of suspended moments.

While collaborating with Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, working closely with established international artists, Giacomo has refined a distinct visual language. His personal practice explores themes of travel and the intimacy of time, often documenting the silent narratives found in peripheral places.

His work encompasses publishing, artistic documentation, and visual research, appearing in major publications such as Vogue, Elle Decor, Interni Magazine, Artribune, Italy Segreta, and La Repubblica.

Editor’s Note: The sartorial saint of Venice, Giacamo knows all the best bars and all the most beautiful patrons of this magical city.

FASHION CORRESPONDENT

As a social media director, creative strategist, and writer, Niamh O’Donoghue works across fashion, culture, and digital influence. Over the last decade, her storytelling has helped guide how luxury brands articulate creativity and cultural impact.

As an Irish-born, London-based journalist, she explores the shifts reshaping the industry — from sustainability to next-gen technologies — translating trends into narratives that feel both accessible and undeniably current.

Editor’s Note: If ever a woman deserved the title of Fairy Godmother of Fabulous Fashion, it is this Irish broad. She’s as delicious as she appears.

PHOTOGRAPHER

Jacques Olivier is a photographer from Paris, capturing unfiltered emotion through a minimalist lens. His work strips away excess, focusing on the interplay of light, form, and spontaneity - isolating moments and stories with paradoxical energy. 

Editor’s Note: Paris isn’t the same once you know Jacques’ Paris. He is as cheeky and irreverent as he is singularly talented - the kind of observer who finds the city at its best just as it slips out of focus.

WRITER

Morgan Grace is an Ireland-based writer of poetry, personal essays and romantic fantasy. Her work is lyrical and raw, with themes of water, wonder and grief. As a recipient of Ireland’s Basic Income for Artists, you will most often find her at her desk. That, or bathing in a nearby stream.
She is currently working on her debut novel and is the author of the Substack, Cypselae.

Editor’s Note: There is no one who sees the world quite like Morgan Grace. With a sensibility that feels drawn from the thin veil between intuition and intellect, her work is among my most favourite reads.

PHOTOJOURNALIST

Ahmad Al-Dabagh is a Sydney-based Iraqi-Australian artist whose work celebrates the poetry of words and the power of imagery. Drawn to nostalgia, quiet moments and evocative landscapes, his work tells stories that linger in the mind and the senses. His work has appeared in Condé Nast Traveller Italia, SUITCASE, Harper’s BAZAAR Ecuador, Accidentally Wes Anderson, List Magazine, MR PORTER and Hypebeast Arabia.

Editor’s Note: If you were to look back at our conversation history, I feel confident my most used word about Ahmad would be ‘obsessed’. His eye, his tone, his perspective… chefs kiss

FOOD & TRAVEL JOURNALIST

Georgia Maher is a Sydney based journalist, producer and TV presenter who chases stories the same way she chases a neat restaurant; with curiosity and appetite. When she’s not on the road, she’s writing stories about food, travel, and culture. Or she can be found reporting on a nightly world news television program.

Georgia’s most at home somewhere between a market stall and a long lunch, learning about the people who help shape these sometimes fabled, sometimes humble experiences. 

Editor’s Note: Recently back in Australia after gracing London’s shores, G is an up-and-coming Icon whose ‘reporter voice’ is unmatched and whose laugh is as genuine as they come. Watch this gal! In years to come, we’ll say we knew her first.

TRAVEL CORRESPONDENT

Evan England is our go-to guide for the perfect car rental, a waterfall you won’t find on Google Maps and the small detour that becomes the highlight of a trip. A former Tour Guide across Australia, Europe and Asia, his travels are shaped by lived experience rather than lists.

After successful chapters in advertising, finance, tech (and surf instructing in both Australia and Scotland), he has spent the better part of two decades following curiosity across more than 100 countries. Today, he travels with an adventurous editorial eye and a deep appreciation for festivals, local rituals and the moments that reveal a place at its most authentic.

Editor’s Note: A man with travel intel and instinct so spot on, what can I say other than… I married him.

Andrew Willis (STUDIO WILLIS) is a director and photographer known for his noir, liminal visual style that shows brands suspended in dreamworlds and motion.

With a diverse portfolio spanning commercial, editorial, and fine art projects, his work is characterised by a rockabilly sensibility that seeks luxury and mystery in the advertising and commercial editorials he produces.

Editor’s Note: Andrew is cheeky, opinionated, elegant, ballsy and brilliant all at the same. He skirts the line between commercial and avant-garde with such ease, you’d be forgiven for thinking of him as a creative chameleon. He can make just about anything feel like luxury.

Devon Miller (she/her) is a writer, community organizer, and temporary cog in the customer service machine. She was a founder of the Maine Coalition for Palestine and presently volunteers with several community initiatives.

She has had poems published in the Riverbed Review and the A Free Palestine Anthology. She lives in the west of Ireland with her husband and rock collection.oes here

Editor’s Note: There is no one funnier in a group chat than Devon, more devoted to change in causes that need champions or in constant state of continual creation.

Carinne Geil Botta is a US-born, Edinburgh- and London-based writer and food policy researcher, passionate about sharing meaningful stories of nourishing foods, enriching travel, and the incredible people she's met along the way. 

Having written for Vogue, Conde Nast Traveller, Business Insider and National Geographic, Carinne is a culinary voice to watch.

Editor’s Note: This chick loves a culinary experience, travel, great beaches and the celtic call-of-the-wild - honestly, what’s not to love!

Laura Jean Henebry (she/her) is writing this biography while waiting for her sushi order. She is a queer poet and creative writer from the east coast of the United States. In 2022 she was a recipient of the Fable Grant for her unique writing style that explores all of the untouched, mundane moments that make a life. When not scratching the belly of one of her dogs, she can be found working on her first collection of poetry, or procrastinating.

You can find more of her work at her instagram @betweenthelinesandspaces.

Editor’s Note: Laura Jean’s poetry creation is as fast and frequent as it is floor-droppingly fantastic. It is my most shared poetry content, whip smart and wickedly provocative.

Emma Lavelle is a photographer and writer, crafting emotive storytelling for hotels, magazines and travel & lifestyle brands.

She’s written for the likes of Condé Nast Traveller, Mr & Mrs Smith, Small Luxury Hotels, Country Life and Blumenhaus, while her photography clients include Pagostas, Glebe House, Fowlescombe Farm and Prussia Cove.

You can find more of her writing at her Substack, Postcards from Wherever.