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Chris Humphrey, story and photos

‘What more fun can you have in a field?’: the bin painters of Glastonbury

Bethany Stenning, a bin painter who will perform with Ishmael Ensemble at West Holts stage on Sunday morning, peeks out from inside a bin.
Bethany Stenning, a bin painter who will perform with Ishmael Ensemble at West Holts stage on Sunday morning, peeks out from inside a bin. Photograph: Chris Humphrey/The Guardian

At the end of May each festival year, Holly Larkin arrives at Worthy Farm to find a vast, rusting pile of metal bins, and starts to feel excited.

She leads a team of about 90 volunteer bin painters, all of whom travel to the Glastonbury festival site to spend two weeks painting an estimated 17,000 bins, all taken from a gigantic pile that is so vast it can be seen on Google maps.

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