Sittings Cock Photography Portraits of Distinction.

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A wheaten Marsh Daisy rooster with gold-brown plumage, a chestnut hackle and a red comb, in a short-sleeved shirt with a large blue, black and ochre wax-print pattern, perched on a wooden school desk in a whitewashed classroom, a rounded world map with coloured countries pinned to the wall beside a blackboard, a frangipani tree in sunlight through the open louvred shutters

Fourteen Greenlands

For as long as anyone can remember, the map on the classroom wall made a continent look the size of an island. Today a new one goes up, rounder at the edges, with Africa at its proper size. He stays behind after the last lesson to see that it hangs straight.

4 September 2026

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