A Bag of Stories is a magazine and cultural platform — by AFAR + Ayzoh! — exploring how we travel, what we carry, how we look, and the relationships we create along the way / more
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A small printer takes almost no room in a travel bag. What it can change, however, is the direction of photography itself: an image no longer travels only with the person who made it.
At Oslo’s Opera House, architecture does something quietly radical: it refuses to keep beauty at a distance. The building is monumental, but its most important gesture may be the simplest one—it invites people in, around, and even over it.
This article opens "The Ethics of Looking", an ongoing "A Bag of Stories" series about photography, language, travel, and the responsibilities that come with representing someone else’s life.
Photographer and linguist Giulia Zhang studies the Burji language in southern Ethiopia. Her work moves between images and words, asking a larger question: what do we lose when we stop listening to the many ways people name the world?
Stories are being published, photographs are finding their place, new contributors and subjects are entering the conversation. We wanted to invite you in now, while all of this is still being built.
What if traveling well begins not with knowing where we are going, but with learning how to arrive? Marine biologist Yacciry Ahuja Jiménez reflects on science, ancestral knowledge, and the invisible things we carry across borders.
This is the second story in an "A Bag of Stories" series exploring Ethiopian culture through everyday practices and knowledge. At Ensira Pottery Center in Addis Ababa, women shape the jebena amid children, kilns, fragile pots, and shared life.
This is the first story in a new "A Bag of Stories" series exploring Ethiopian culture through the practices, materials, places, and forms of knowledge that shape everyday life. We begin with food: with teff, and with the work that comes before injera.
In places where public welfare is thin and formal employment scarce, millions of people build livelihoods one sale at a time. The informal economy should not be romanticized but neither should it be treated as disorder to be erased.
