Melusine

The story of Sarra Coppia Sullam, the poetess who lived in the Venetian Ghetto during roughly the first half of the 17th century.
She had a long correspondence with Ansaldo Cebà, a former diplomat who became a monk in a Genovese monastery. 

All photography, text, styling and costumes: © Bettiena Drukker

Sarra: Nyncke Beekhuyzen

Sarra, Yellow Veil


This is the story of A’emme, who lived in Paris. Nobody really knows who she was. Her real name was probably Anne Marianne Boulanger, born around 1870; but all information about her was lost in the great fire of the Paris town hall in 1871. All that remained were scraps of correspondence that show she lived, for a very long time, in the ninth arrondissement from 1898 onwards. It seems she reached a very old age – more than a hundred years old . . .
Nobody knows exactly how she made a living. Was she a prostitute? A beggar? Or just a girl who fell for the wrong kind of men? 

Dutch/German actress Annemaaike Bakker is A’emme.
