Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau—putting Pacific Islands on the map

Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau has been based in the tropical paradise that is Tahiti, French Polynesia, since the age of 7 when her fashion-photographer father did a photoshoot there and decided to the move the family from Paris. “The fact that I was of mixed German-Vietnamese heritage actually helped me being easily integrated within the local population, with a lot of people having mixed Polynesian-European-Asian origins. I just always had the feeling...