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• The iron age hillfort that makes people cry: David R Abram’s best photograph

  28-02-2024 16:17
  
  ‘People are often in tears during my talks, telling me these images have changed their lives. But all I’ve done is connect them with the landscape – and those who inhabited it before us’I took this picture of Badbury Rings in Dorset before the pandemic, when I was still figuring out how to use a drone to photograph ancient sites from above. Hillforts look amazing from the air: the ripple effect and autumn colours are extraordinary and it’s a view that the human eye
  
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• ‘It has the smell of the oasis’: how palm husks became prize-winning Moroccan art

  28-02-2024 06:00
  
  Female weavers in a Berber-speaking village helped Amina Agueznay to create a work that won the Norval Sovereign African art prizeThe idea of weaving an artwork from palm husks came to Amina Agueznay during a workshop she was leading in Morocco’s Souss-Massa region, as part of a project with local rug weavers to renovate Tissekmoudine, a ksar, or fortified village.“The plan was to integrate the palm trees from the oasis in our designs, so I encouraged the women to look around them an
  
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• Rhiannon Giddens: Country Music Belongs To Everyone

  28-02-2024 00:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “All of these comments, which range from simply ignorant to downright misogynoir, presuppose that commercial country music is a legacy that belongs only to white, rural southerners. And that supposition is just plain wrong.” – The Guardian
  
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