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.
AFAR took its name from a region of salt, heat, distance, and human endurance. Years later, the name still asks a question: what does it mean to carry a place with you?
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.
36 portrait posters featuring the people who make AFAR bags in Addis Ababa. Inspired by a question raised by Fashion Revolution, the project brings the viewer inside the workshop: who stands behind the objects we use every day?
AFAR and KEL12 begin a new collaboration built around thoughtful travel, Ethiopian craft, and objects made to stay on the road.
Letters from Afar is our note to readers: new stories, field updates, editorial paths, and quiet signals from the magazine as it begins to grow.
Some stories arrive as fragments first: a sentence overheard, a road after rain, a gesture in a workshop, a small detail that keeps asking to be followed.
A good company is measured in the daily conditions it creates: work, wages, materials, relationships, decisions, and the dignity people can build through them.
