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The Making of Urban Billy: A Photo Essay

The Making of Urban Billy: A Photo Essay

Elliat Rich’s Urban Billy (featured in Habitus issue 26) is a labour of love, slowly developed over nearly a decade in close collaboration with the makers. Here we see the artful process in pictures.

 

Part One: Woodturning, Oscar Prieckhaerts

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Part Two: Glass Blowing, Kent Carruthers

 

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For the full story on Urban Billy, see Habitus issue 26, pg. 51, on sale now.

Elliat Rich
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