The Ethics of Looking
Photography, language, travel, and the responsibilities that begin when we represent someone else’s life.
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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Editorial Sections
The Future Has a Local Address
The future is often described from far away. We want to look for it in workshops, farms, streets, schools, markets, and communities that refuse to disappear.
The Quiet Life of Things
Objects travel with us in silence. They hold tickets, dust, stains, repairs, departures, returns, and the private memory of lives in motion.
What the Hands Know
Hands carry knowledge that rarely enters official language. They measure, cut, weave, polish, repair, remember, and give form to materials before they become objects.
The Road Is Never Empty
Every journey carries more than a destination. It carries work, memory, weather, language, desire, and the quiet evidence of people who make movement possible.
Kaluwa, Made for the Rhythm of Summer
As we continue to build "A Bag of Stories", the AFAR magazine, we turn our attention to another design from the Raffia Collection: Kaluwa, a distinctive woven bag created in two sizes for the lighter rhythm of summer.
Keisha, in Three Voices
AFAR has a new online home and a new way of writing to you. From now on, our collections will arrive with stronger images, clearer information, and more room for the materials, people, and ideas behind what we make. We begin with Keisha: one generous shape, interpreted in three distinct voices.
Madagascar Raffia: What a Leaf Remembers
Raffia begins in wet ground, close to water, where the palm grows and each harvest must leave enough of the plant untouched for it to continue living. From Madagascar to Addis Ababa, the fiber carries the memory of landscapes, skilled hands, and decisions made with care.
Before You Take That Picture
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.
