Stories from Ethiopia, following its makers, places, materials, and ideas through contemporary culture, everyday life, and the futures people are building.
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?
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.
