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• Djoubi with his five canine bodyguards: Laura Henno’s best photograph

  23-03-2022 16:44
  
  ‘He is one of a gang of undocumented immigrant teens who live on the beach in Mayotte protected by their herd of dogs. They like to ask passersby: “Why are you scared?”’I met Djoubi in Mayotte, a French territory off the coast of east Africa. I took this in 2017 when he was 17, though I first began photographing undocumented immigrants in another French territory in the Indian Ocean, Réunion, for my project La Cinquième Île (The Fifth Island) in 2009.M
  
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• Burning Man blazes into Britain: can its wild sculptural magic work in the dales?

  23-03-2022 07:00
  
  The mind-bending Nevada desert festival – full of crazed hippies and post-apocalyptic sculpture – has colonised one of Britain’s greatest stately homes. Is the Duke of Devonshire going psychedelic?Climbing the inside of Christina Sporrong’s gigantic head, I look up towards the books that are escaping through the top of its open skull and fluttering out into the perfect blue sky. I have to watch my step – there are some gaps in the railings – until I reach the
  
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• ‘A story of social justice’: a history of racial segregation and swimming

  23-03-2022 06:28
  
  A new exhibition highlights a shameful history of racism in pools but also a recognition of Black swimming heroesAquatic-safety advocate Angela Beale-Tawfeeq grew up swimming at the public pool in her predominantly Black neighborhood. “We always say, ‘In North Philadelphia, born and raised, in the swimming pool is where we spent most of our days,’ she recites, referencing the familiar lyrics of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song.Now the education and research director of Di
  
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