Graphically Speaking
When we recently spotted Tanzanian-born model Herieth Paul dressed in a Gareth Pugh body suit, the image immediately struck us,…
Carl Kleiner on Ethiopia, A Beauty Awaiting Discovery
A, is for Addis Ababa. That was the inspiration and start of how Swedish photographer Carl Kleiner and his wife…
Oh To Be So Adroit
“Body painting, as practiced here in East Africa, the cradle of humanity, seems to me to represent a way…
In Search of Another Africa: A Photographic Essay
Some months back, we asked French artist and photographer Florent Meng, if he would join us in a photographic conversation….
Buy Peace For Free
On December 15, 1969 a seed was planted to imagine a world that could be peaceful – without violence, without…
Unexpected Architectural Unions
Having lived in Japan for more than ten years as well as being born in Ethiopia, makes for an exotic and rare profile. In all my wanderings, I have hardly met any Ethiopians or Eritreans, Habesha people, in Japan. So, when I read about a project that was recycling architecture between Ethiopia and Japan, to say that my curiosity was peaked would be down playing it.
