Communities, cooperatives, schools, workshops, and cultural spaces where local knowledge becomes a practical way to imagine fairer futures from within.
In a former seventeenth-century church in Brescia, Anna Renzi Brivio makes garments by beginning where fashion often ends: with a person, a body, and the time required to understand both.
inAfrica began as a network connecting Italians working across African countries. One connection brought Ayzoh! and AFAR together and became a story about business, trust, and the distance between entering a market and building a relationship.
In Addis Ababa, Sabahar works with spinners, dyers and weavers whose knowledge belongs to one of Ethiopia’s oldest material traditions. Keeping that knowledge alive, however, requires more than preservation: it requires change.
We have never made so many images, and perhaps we have never spent so much time asking photography to prove its own importance. There may be another way: move the photographer away from the center, and ask what an image can actually do in the life of someone else.
In LIMINA, photographer Anna Nagy looks at a corner of western Rome where family photographs, old houses, gardens, reeds, and apartment blocks occupy the same uncertain territory. Her work asks a deceptively simple question: when does private memory become the memory of a place?
At Oslo’s Opera House, architecture does something quietly radical: it refuses to keep beauty at a distance. The building is monumental, but its most important gesture may be the simplest one: it invites people in, around, and even over 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?
In places where public welfare is thin and formal employment scarce, millions of people build livelihoods one sale at a time. The informal economy should not be romanticized but neither should it be treated as disorder to be erased.
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.
