Meet the muses

Olive Cooke’s time at Soneva Fushi was a study in sun, salt and slow days. Mornings moved to the rhythm of the tide, barefoot and unhurried, while afternoons unfolded beneath palms or on sandbanks, wrapped in linen and quiet. The island’s effortless blend of natural beauty and conscious design mirrored her own sensibility — pared back, thoughtful, and quietly luxurious. Through her lens, the Maldives emerged not as a postcard cliché, but as a place of texture, tone, and ritual. A softer kind of spectacle.