Art and design shape the objects we use, the images we share, and the spaces we inhabit. From photography and visual arts to typography, textiles, and contemporary design, we explore creative practices, the people behind them, and their relationships with culture, work, and society.
From ancient textile traditions to Pop art, political posters, and contemporary manufacturing, screen printing has carried images across centuries and continents. Inside AFAR's Ethiopian workshop, a wooden frame and a practiced hand reveal how this adaptable technique continues to work.
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.
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.
Walking through Sebastião Salgado’s Amazônia, I entered as an admirer. I left still moved by its beauty, but carrying a harder question: when photography makes us care through wonder, what might that same beauty leave outside the frame?