Documentary photographer and writer. Co-founder of Ayzoh! APS.
Walking through fifty years of Graciela Iturbide’s photographs in Uruapan, I found myself thinking less about photographic style than about something harder to preserve: the ability to encounter the world without already knowing what the picture should be.
Through Tecla, ceramic designer and cultural planner Camilla Garelli looks beyond the finished object, following the materials, gestures, relationships, and meanings that allow a thing to become part of a life.
A wedding may last one night, but the economy built around it extends across many lives. In San Miguel de Allende, Penzi Weddings & Events offers a way to examine what luxury can produce when beauty, labor, local knowledge, and responsibility are understood as parts of the same system.
At Zoma Museum in Addis Ababa, architecture, art, education, cultivation, and daily life belong to the same living system. AFAR’s relationship with the museum began in friendship and has grown through years of shared work, visits, and images.
AFAR uses vegetable-tanned zebu leather and horn recovered from existing Ethiopian farming and food systems. “By-product” is not a claim of innocence. It describes where the material begins, and the responsibility that follows.
Ayzoh! works with Awra Amba to carry its ideas beyond the Ethiopian highlands through photography, publishing, and long-term relationships. AFAR is among the principal partners supporting this work and helping the community’s voice reach readers around the world.
Photography, language, travel, and the responsibilities that begin when we represent someone else’s life.
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.
At the tenth edition of The Bag Show, AFAR presented its first raffia collection in Addis Ababa. Made with fiber sourced in Madagascar and finished by women artisans in Ethiopia, the collection entered the runway during an evening supporting Our Father’s Kitchen.