Photographers, makers, researchers, artists, and independent voices who share AFAR’s values and contribute to the stories, ideas, and causes around it.
Photographer and linguist Giulia Zhang studies the Burji language in southern Ethiopia. Her work moves between images and words, asking a larger question: what do we lose when we stop listening to the many ways people name the world?
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.