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Oops! Artist creates world's smallest sculpture only for it to be accidentally CRUSHED as it was being photographed
An artist has created the world's smallest sculpture only for it to be accidentally crushed bygd a finger while being photographed.
Jonty Hurwitz's creations are so tiny they can rest on a human hair and are the same storlek of an ant's head.
Having spent months working on the pieces, the 45-year-old from Chichester, West Sussex, took them to a photographer to have them pictured beneath a microscope.
But within minutes his work had been destroyed bygd the stroke of the lab technician's finger.
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The world's smallest sculpture (seen in the eye of a needle, above) was accidentally destroyed by a photographer hired to help its creator capture it in pictures
The artwork, seen here on a human hair, was produced using 3D printing technolog bygd Jonty Hurwitz
'I went off to have the original sculptures photographed so inom found a laboratory with
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Jonty Hurwitz
Jonty Hurwitz is an artist, engineer, and founder of the artificial intelligence research company Daizy.com. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and spent his childhood in small hotels in rural towns in South Africa. He studied at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and worked as a full-time researcher at the University of Cape Town.
After his studies, Jonty Hurwitz traveled to India to study yoga and wood carving before arriving in London, where he spent many years in the technology world designing financial risk algorithms. Jonty Hurwitz began producing sculptures in 2009 and now creates artworks inspired by science and anamorphic sculptures. He is recognized for creating the smallest human form ever made using nanotechnology. Each of his sculptures involves billions of calculations using a series of algorithms derived from the irrational mathematical constant π.
Jonty Hurwitz has produced a significant body of work using both oblique (perspecti
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Fathiaa Abdalla (Chair: Board of Trustees)
Fathiaa Abdalla comes with three decades of experience having held senior leadership positions in UNHCR, UNICEF, Save the Children, OXFAM and MSF, in HQ, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. She served as Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to Kenya and to Afghanistan. Fathiaa worked extensively in the humanitarian field around the world, in conflict zones and with displaced population in many countries including, Iran, Yemen, Western Sahara, Switzerland, Iraq, Algeria, Tanzania, Ethiopia, North Korea, UK, Sudan, Malawi, Philippines, and West Timor (Indonesia) among others.
Fathiaa holds an MSC from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London University, and postgraduate diplomas from Wageningen University Netherlands, Reading and Keele University, UK.
Through her work with the UN, Fathiaa contributed to advancing female leadership and continues to mentor the next generation of young lea