Unforgettable Ethiopia – after trip photo notes – part i.

 

So, as i promised to you, my dear visiters in my previous post, and as i promised to my good friend Naomi in our correspondence on IG, today i start with my comeback photo notes from the trip to Ethiopian in the extremely far from here year 2015. I can’t believe that more than 10 years flew by since then. Having returned from the trip, I couldn’t stop dreaming about another trip there, this time more planned for a specific purpose – contact with people and taking photographs. But, the worldwide pandemic and the Tigray war, 2020-2022. And the war in my country. All these events just moved my dream away from it’s possible implementation.

After checking some statistics of my site, I noticed that the topic of Ethiopia is covered very well in my blog posts. In total, I published 26 short photo essays about this trip. Definitely not bad performance for just one 9 days long trip. But these 9 days were compressed by the non-stop gallop of changing faces, roads, places, day and night events, which I tirelessly documented with tho my cameras. With the working horse DSLR and another not less working horse Hasselblad 500cm. Some of the analog photographs remained unscanned, although I developed them a long time ago. Looks like this project will push me to scan them.

All the presented today photographs i took during the first and the third day of the trip. Of course, I will not follow the exact chronology of the narrative and will very spontaneously jump from day to day and from one place to another. Upon departure from Addis Ababa our first destination was Bahir Dar. So this series of the images was taken in the small villages around.

For those who know what teff is, and perhaps eat it as a super healthy food, these photos show how teff is harvested, mostly with the seasonal “help” of kids and teenagers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you haven’t done it yet – please check my recently made photo slide show. These photographs of my good friend Nomi i photographed with both Ricoh GRii and the 15 years old old work-horse Canon 5d mkii cameras during the night session in the white dunes. Naomi is amazing Fire Art artist. take a look and preferably on large monitors, please.

 

 

And, additionally, my last photozine “Isolated in 2020″” is still available on the Blurb store. I photographed the images in the far 2020, during the second (or third) massive isolation due to the only known by our government methods to combat the pandemic. It was a Holidays time and our offices were closed, so the only thing I had to do was staying at home and walking around my village and taking images.