Category: Photography

A mesmerizing photobook capturing rural and urban Ethiopia

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…
Photo Of the Day

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…
Prize-winning images

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…
Look back with pride

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…
Photographer chronicles contrasts and characters

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…