Category: Photography
Joey Lawrence, better known by his professional name, Joey L, is a Canadian-born self-taught photographer and director based in Addis Ababa. He is known for both his fine art personal projects and high-profile commissions. Lawrence, among others, has captured portraits…
“The portraits I create can be difficult to understand from a universal perspective,” These were the concluding remarks of the renowned African-American painter Kehinde Wiley at the end of a long conversation on “A Maze of Power” at the Musée…
Deana Lawson is an African-American photographer who shoots intimate staged portraits that explore Blackness, legacy, and collective memory. Her practice borrows from simultaneous visual traditions, ranging from photographic and figurative portraiture, social documentary aesthetics, and vernacular family album photographs. Lawson…
Here are images by an Ethiopian photojournalist Mulugeta Ayene that won a prize in the world’s most prestigious photojournalism awards. Mulugeta’s series of images of grieving families at the site of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, near Addis…
The story behind the vintage photo Recently at a photography studio in Haya Hulet area of Addis Ababa, my attention was captured by a faded black and white photograph that was lying on the counter, evidently to be retouched. In…
Over the last three decades, South African photographer Guy Tillim, 56, has borne witness to the dramatic change in African metropolises. While working as a photographer for Reuters and Agence France Press, he has often been at the right place…
Wolfgang Tillmans’ Fragile, opened on 14 February at the Modern Art Museum & the Goethe-Institut Addis Ababa, doesn’t just speak to the fragility of things or life but goes beyond that to question photography itself. Tillman’s photos have overcome the…
The Ethiopian photographer Maheder Haileselassie’s recent work, Birth, features mothers in labour, delivery and newly born babies taken at Saint Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa. “Spending a week in total in the delivery ward, I tried to…
Center for Photography in Ethiopia announces the latest exhibition titled ‘Against Gravity’ which will run from 25 September to 24 October focusing on Identity, change and people, according to a press release. Eight emerging Ethiopian photographers, Abdi Bekele, Addis Aemero,…
Aviad Tal is a freelance artist and photographer based in Haifa, Israel who has worked in amazing countries in West Africa and Southern Africa—but it was Ethiopia that grabbed his attention. “I immediately felt a strong connection to the…