The real story of the Pilgrims and the Indigenous people they encountered is more complicated, though no less human, than the grade-school narrative we're familiar with.
Our photographer discovered the town by accident when a flat tire sidelined her in the Australian desert. She stumbled on an underground church with candles burning, and small hills with doors carved into the sides. But not a soul in sight.
Thamugadi was once a thriving North African military outpost. It was forgotten under desert sands until a Scottish explorer went looking for it centuries later.
These artists' tiny models imagine what a city might look like after humans are long gone. "You wouldn't know it from the work we do," says one of the artists, "but I'm actually really optimistic."
What might seem like an uninteresting speck of black, brown, or gray—something we might be inclined to shoo out the window—is a source of fascination for photographer Daniel Kariko.
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