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I REMEMBER as a kid exploring a near-derelict building on a bit of land behind a row of shops and finding a bird’s nest on a dusty shelf, complete with squawking, alien-like chicks. I still remember the thrill of feeling I’d stumbled across a secret – but there was also an odd sense of intrusion, like I’d walked in on my mother getting dressed.

Both emotions are provoked by Sharon Beals‘s beautiful images of birds’ nests. “When I hold these fragile structures in…

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