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Fremantle-based mapmaker, artist and illustrator Sara Drake on her first globe, her two-year wait list, the challenge of photographing her ultra-detailed 3D maps, and adding to a piece until “someone physically wrestles it out of [her] hands.” See her maps at saradrake.com
India map
Mexico map
Her photographer Henry Whitehead
Map artists she likes:
Kate Tarling
Linda Gass
Bodys Isek Kingelez
Michele Tranquillini
Martin Haake
Katherine Baxter
Nate Padavick
Anna Simmons
Tania Willis
Joyce Kozloff
Helen Cann
Janet Browne
Chris Kenny
Rodica Prato
Bek Cruddace
Libby Vanderploeg
Rohan Chakravarty
Sudarshan Shaw
Ben Sack
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