Listen to the Sounds of an 18,000-year-old Conch

Happy Monday. ⛅️ Today, the sound of a 18,000-year-old wind instrument, a Magnum photographer has res

Mar 22, 2021 • View in browser

Happy Monday. ⛅️ Today, the sound of a 18,000-year-old wind instrument, a Magnum photographer has resigned amid allegations of sexual harassment and child exploitation, and 100 women street photographers.— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

100 Women Street Photographers Freeze the Exquisitely Mundane A new book compiles unstaged public photographs by 100 artists of all ages, hailing from 31 countries spanning Ghana to Iran. Karen Chernick

What's Happening

Researchers reexamined a conch fossil from the site of the Upper Paleolithic Marsoulas cave society and found it to be an 18,000-year-old wind instrument; listen to its music. Amid allegations of sexual harassment and child exploitation, Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey has resigned from the agency.

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