Bronze / 2020 / Book / Nature

Perseveration: The Heron of a Huron River

  • Prize
    Bronze in Book/Nature
  • Photographer
    Glenn Hieber, United States
  • Website

Decade project. 12 dozen images of riparian heron. A letter difference in river & tribe name "Huron" and heron. Prevailing etymology of French slur "hure" is a guttural the likes of which get only first initial in wider audience. It traces from unspoken Establishment derisive passed down generations for mullets peasants showed up with for a gruesome 1358 Jacquerie northeastern Paris suburb uprising. It likens "big head" hair with mantle hair of barren Black Plague wild bore when piqued. Goose pimples. h-word hair, whisper, racism appear upon gifting precision European tomahawks to New France.

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