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A documentary series on Ethiopian engineers, founders and designers building at altitude — told without narration.
Every volume in the Proof Layer is published with its sources, its photographers and its researchers credited. Where a claim rests on a contested or provisional figure, that is stated in the text rather than left to the reader to discover.
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