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Three Creative Paths: from passion project to career.

Three Creative Paths: a Friends of Friends film and editorial series for Squarespace with three Berlin founders who built a career online, 2022.

The Journal Collective founders talking at an open balcony door in a Berlin flat

Squarespace sells websites. The series looked at what a website does for people who turn something they love into a living.

Friends of Friends met three Berlin founders in spring 2022: a photography collective, a city blog and a meal-delivery service. Each one got a short film and a photographed interview. A fourth film brings the three together.

Three Creative Paths series film: three Berlin founders on turning a passion into a career, Friends of Friends and Squarespace
01 — The Journal Collective

A visual record by women and non-binary photographers.

In March 2020 photographer Charlotte Schmitz asked who would document a moment that was changing daily life everywhere. The answer became The Journal Collective, an online platform for women and non-binary photographers to share personal visual stories.

The Journal Collective · Photography

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Three Creative Paths film with the founders of The Journal Collective in Berlin
Three photographers laughing together on a Berlin street Hands sorting photo prints spread across a wooden table
Photographer raising a film camera to her eye Portrait of a Journal Collective founder in red glasses
02 — Stil in Berlin

A blog that became a job.

Mary Scherpe co-founded Stil in Berlin in 2006 to photograph street style in a city she had just moved to. The blog grew into an internationally read guide to local, independent culture, food and travel.

Mary Scherpe · Stil in Berlin

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Three Creative Paths film with Mary Scherpe of Stil in Berlin
Stil in Berlin founder Mary Scherpe at home among plants and a dog Mary Scherpe walking into a green-walled living room with a coffee cup
Mary Scherpe with her dog on a Berlin sidewalk Mary Scherpe walking her dog across a sunny Berlin square
03 — Personal Chef Berlin

Home cooking, delivered weekly.

Self-taught cook Chi You started Personal Chef Berlin in 2020, a weekly meal-prep service for healthy home-cooked food. A clear online presence lets her spend her time in the kitchen.

Chi You · Personal Chef Berlin

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Three Creative Paths film with chef Chi You of Personal Chef Berlin
Personal Chef Berlin founder Chi You in an apron at a doorway Chi You filming a dish on a tripod camera in her flat
Chi You grating cheese over a bowl of food Chi You shaping dough balls in a professional kitchen
A website as the first room of the business.

Three Creative Paths, a film and editorial series for Squarespace, produced by Friends of Friends in Berlin in 2022.

Four films and three photographed interviews, published on Friends of Friends and YouTube.

Collaborators
Friends of Friends
Photography
Lena Giovanazzi
Director of photography
Marcus Werner
Year
2022