2012 program

2012 PROGRAM

A very special thank you to: Olafur Eliasson and Julie Mehretu.

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Thank you to our 2012 Sponsors and Partners

Credit: Editor Aida Muluneh Content Editor Robin Riskin Wanja Kimani Design Samuel Taye Henok Bekele Design Intern Eyasu Mulugeta Contributors Simon Njami Chester Higgins Omo Photography Mario Di Bari Cover Photography 2010 Jamel Shabazz 2012 Goitom Habtemariam

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Participants / Curators 9 John Fleetwood9 Marina Reina Guindo10 Mitchket Krifa10 Elvira Dyangani Ose10 Akinbode Akinbiyi11 Mulugeta Ayene12 Mario Di Bari13 Abdoulaye Barry14 Addis Belete15 Arturo Bibang16 Marie Ange Bordas17 Mohamed Camara18 Nestor Da19 Abate Damte20 Fatoumata Diabaté21 Delphine Diaw Diallo22 Karim Dridi23 Hassan And Husain Essop24 Allessandro Gandolfi25 Yemane Gebremedihin26 Mamadou Gomis

ADDIS FOTO FEST 2012

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AIDA MuluNEHCurator Statement

Aïda MulunehDirector/Founder

Addis Foto Fest

On December 7th, 2010, we opened the first edition of the Addis Foto Fest with a dedication to the leg-endary photographer Shemelis Desta at the Alliance Ethio-Française. It was a thrilling week for all of us to finally see our hard work culminate to the much antici-pated opening of the featured exhibition “Ethiopia: In-terior Visions” which featured different points of view on Ethiopia. The opening also hosted a unique video performance by Yo-Yo Gonthier along with the Nubian Arc band. With over 500 viewers, the opening became the key event that set the pace for the next few days of the festival.

Born in Ethiopia in 1974, Aïda left the country at a young age and spent an itinerant childhood between Yemen and England. After several years in a boarding school in Cyprus, she finally settled in Canada in 1985. In 2000, she graduated with a degree from the Communication Department with a major in film from Howard Univer-sity in Washington, D.C. After graduation she worked as a photojournalist at the Washington Post and other publications. As an exhibiting artist, a collection of her images can be found in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art and the Museum of Biblical Art in the United State. She is the 2007 recipient of the European Union Prize in the Ren-contres Africaines de la Photographie in Bamako, Mali, as well as the 2010 winner of the CRAF International Award of Photography in Spilimbergo,Italy. Aïda is the founder and director of the first international photo-graphy festival in Ethiopia, the Addis Foto Fest. She continues to curate and develop cultural projects with local and international institutions through her compa-ny DESTA (Developing and Educating Society Through Art) For Africa in Addis Ababa.

There were many memorable moments that we still talk about til this day, and reflecting back on that week in December, I feel a great sense of friendship to those who believed enough to support a dream of bridging opportunities through images.

With all of this said, the time has come again for the second edition of the Addis Foto Fest, which is to take place December 3-8, 2012. looking back, the first edition brought together 30 participants and over 5,000 viewers to the citywide activity. In the same vein, the AFF 2012 will feature photography and video art exhibitions, conferences, workshops and portfolio reviews. In addition, this year’s opening exhibition, “Addis Transformation,” will be dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the city of Addis Ababa. The exhibition will bring together various photographers who have documented one of the fastest growing metropolises in Africa. Through the cooperation and support of our partners, the Addis Foto Fest is moving forward towards becoming a key event in the landscape of African contemporary art and culture. Our goal continues in each edition to provide opportunities to expose our participants and viewers to the various ways in which the image of Africa is portrayed.

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27 Samuel Habtab28 Goitom Habtemariam29 uche Okpa-Iroha30 Ala Kheir31 Mohamed Konaté32 Florestan Korp33 Kyle laMere34 Baudouin Mouanda35 Zanele Muholi36 Jehad Ng37 Nii Oboda38 Emeka Okerek39 Invisible Boarders40 Nyaba leon Ouedraogo41 Nyani Quarmyne42 Samuel Taye43 Belete Tekele 44 Petterik Wiggers45 Patrick Wokmeni

Exhibitions, Screenings and Performances

46 PuMA Peace47 life in My City48 Synchronicity48 Restless City49 Institut für Raumexperimente50 AFF Talks I50 AFF Talks II51 Addis Foto Fest Portfolio Review

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ADDIS FOTO FEST 2012 PROGRAM

December 3, 2012 5:30pm-7:00pm Addis Transformation: urbanization, Society and the Environment in Addis Ababa. The collection looks at the city of Addis Ababa through a six-month project on the impacts of urbanization — Taitu Hotel (Piassa). Featuring: Belete Tekele, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Yemanie Gebermedhin, Goitom Habtemariam, Mulugeta Ayene, Samuel Habtab, Addis Belete, Yo-Yo Gonthier, Mario di Bari, Alessandro Gandolfi, Abate Damte, Florestan Korp, Samuel Taye, Karim Dridi, and Kyle Lamere.

December 4, 2012 9:00am-12:45pm Portfolio Review 1:00pm-3:00pm Invisible Borders exhibition showcases the journey of twelve photographers and a writer — Africa Union New Conference Centre. Featuring Ray Daniels Okeugo, Jumoke Sanwo, Amaize Ojeikere, Lucy Azubuike, Chidinma Nnorom, Kemi Akin-Nibosun, Mario Macilau, Christain Nyampeta, Jide Odukoya, Emmanuel Iduma (writer), Emeka Okereke, Uche Okpa-Iroha and Ala Kheir.

6:30pm-8:30pm Africa.es: 8 African photographers views on Spain — National Theater Gallery. Featuring Mamadou Gomis, Patrick Wokmeni, Nii Obodai, Arturo Bibang, Emeka Okereke, Zanele Muholi, Mohamed Konate and Mulugeta Ayene.

December 5, 2012 9:00am-12:45pm Portfolio Review 4:00pm-6:00pm AFF Talks I: The photography market in and out of Africa. — Alliance Ethio-francaise Presenters: Elvira Dyangani Ose, Michket Krifa and Marina Reina Moderator: Marie-Ange Bordas 6:30pm-8:30pm African Emerging Photography exhibition, curated by Mitchket Krifa and Laura Serani. A collective showcasing new talents from the continent — Alliance Ethio-Française. Featuring: Abdoulaye Barry, Mohamed Camara, Nestor Da, Fatoumata Diabate, Uche Okpa-Iroha, Jehad Nga, Nyani Quarmyne, Arturo Bibang, Baudouin Mouanda, Zanele Muholi, Nyaba Ouedraogo, Hussein and Hassan Essop.

December 6, 2012 9:00am-12:45pm Portfolio Review6:30pm-8:30pm Exhibition #1: Through video installation and fine art photography, artists Marie Ange Bordas & Delphine Diaw Diallo reflect different visions into the usage of image for self-expression. — Modern Art Museum/Gebre Kirstos Desta Center (Sidist Kilo).

Exhibition #2: 2012 Market Photo Workshop Exhibition, featuring works by current students of the Market Photo School based in Johannesburg, South Africa, curated by John Fleetwood — Goethe Institut (Sidist Kilo).


December 7, 2012 3:00pm-5:00pm AFF Talks 2: The art of tel l ing a story: Photojournal ism and media. — I tal ian Cultural Inst i tute-Theater. Presenters: John Fleetwood, Nick Danziger and Frédéric Lafargue Moderator 5:00pm-7:00pm Screening: Restless City by Andrews Dosunmu award winner of the Colors of the Nile Film Festival 2012 — Italian Cultural Institute

7:30pm-9:00pm Khartoum, featuring works by Sudanese photographer Ala Kheir — Italian Cultural Institute-Gallery

December 8, 2012

2:00pm-4:00pm Screening: Blow-Up is a 1966 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni about a photographer played by David Hemmings, who believes he may have witnessed a murder and unwittingly taken photographs of the killing it was Antionioni’s first English-language film — Italian Cultural Institute 5:30pm-8:00pm Collective work by artists from Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments) which fea tures site-specific works engaging public space and the perception of images in the city. - Ale School of Fine Art and Design/Addis Ababa University (Sidist Kilo). 8:30pm-11:00pm Closing at Five Art Studio will feature a collection of images from around Africa in collaboration with the life In My City Art Festival (lIMCAF) based in Enugu, Nigeria, Curator: Kevin Ejiofor Screening: Synchronicity: Featuring 12 photographers and video artists - Five Art Studio (Bole

JOhn FlEETWOOD

John Fleetwood is the Head of the Market Photo Work-shop, a school and gallery for photography in Johan-nesburg, South Africa. In his 10-year tenure he initiated the Photo Workshop Gallery, one of few photography-dedicated galleries in South Africa; the Photojournal-ism Documentary Photography Programme, the sole photojournalism training programme of this nature on the African continent; and the Edward Ruiz Mentor-ship, the longest established photography mentorship on the continent, as well as various other mentorship programmes. John teaches and curates in various ca-pacities.

Educator /CuratorMARInA REINA GuINDO

In 2009, Marina graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in pharmaceuticals from the university of Granada and by impulse, became a photographer. She photographs in order to tell stories, using the method as a tool for re-flection for both the subject and herself. In 2010, she studied for the International Masters of Photography at EFTI photography school, and was active in work-shops led by nationally and internationally recognized photographers, including Antoine d’Agata, Eduardo Momeñe and Jane Evelyn Atwood.

Marina has participated in several group exhibitions, including PhotoEspaña ’11, TarazonaFoto ’11, and Ma-dridFoto ’12. She has worked as a freelance photog-rapher for the Colpisa agency and helped to organ-ize the Spanish tour of the single-leg soccer team of Sierra leone (SlASC) within the project “One Goal” by Pep Bonet and Sergi Agusti. She currently coordinates the roaming exhibition of the “Africa.es” project in col-laboration with seven African photographers with the AECID (Spanish Agency of International Development and Cooperation).

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Ongoing Screening Location: Addis Ababa City Hall and Edna Mall Cinema Center Screening: Films for Peace/Puma.Peace

ElvIRA DYANGANI OSE

Elvira Dyangani Ose is an art historian and curator. She is a founding member of the laboratory for Oral Re-sources in Equitorial Guinea, an independent research group on Equatorial Guinea oral tradition. She has taken part in numerous symposiums on contemporary African art addressing artistic production, culture and contemporary practices. She served as a curator at Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, and “Tres scenarios/Three sce-nario,” and curated international exhibitions, including “Olvida quién soy / Erase me from who I am,” in col-laboration with Tracy Murinik, Khwezi Gule and Gabi Ngcobo. In 2011, she was appointed Curator Interna-tional Art at Tate Modern, london.

CuratorMuluGETA AYENE


MITchkET KRIFA

Michket Krifa is an independent curator, author and consultant for visual arts in the Middle East and Africa based in Paris. She has curated several exhibitions and written numerous essays and articles on photography including “le Printemps Palestinien,” “Iran, regards croisés,” “Regards Persans” and “Algerie, les faits et les effets.” She has collaborated with organizations in Eu-rope, Africa and the Middle East on issues surround-ing the representation of culture, women and religion. Since 2009, she has been artistic director of the 8th and 9th Bamako Encounters, African Biennale of Pho-tography.

CuratorAkInbODE AKINBIYI

Akinbode Akinbiyi was born of Nigerian parents in Oxford, England, in 1946. Today he lives in Berlin, working almost worldwide from there. His school and university experiences reach from Nigeria to England and Germany. He took his B.A. Degree in English at Ibadan university, Nigeria. Akinbode has been working as a freelance photographer since 1977. He got a STERN reportage grant to work in the cities of lagos, Kano and Dakar in 1987 and was co-founder of uMZANZSI, a cultural center in Cler-mont Township in Durban, South Africa, in 1993. Ak-inbode Akinbiyi’s main photographic interest focus-es on large, sprawling mega-cities. He is working on the four biggest cities on the African continent – la-gos, Cairo, Kinshasa and Johannesburg - aiming at spreading these topics through serious art books and exhibitions. Akinbode has taken part in many international exhibitions, and his publications have been printed worldwide. He also works as a curator and leader of photographic workshops.

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Mulugeta Ayene is an award winning photojournalist and a fine art photographer, he was born in Ethiopia and lives in Addis Ababa. He has presented four exhi-bitions of work at the Master School of Photography and Videography, the Habesha gallery, the National Museum and the Alliance Ethio-Française. His photog-raphy has been showcased by the American Press and several other local and international organizations. He has recently been awarded a first prize in photojournal-ism by the Foreign Correspondent Association of Ethi-opia (FCAE) in the Excellence of Journalism 2011 com-petition. Mulugeta is currently working for the Capital newspaper as a photographic journalist. His passion for photography is inspired by what he calls “the art of seeing.” He says, “I love to creatively see what is current and occurring before my eyes. I am seduced by the visual impact of events unfolding in Ethiopia as well as the graphic nature of global events. I live to use all my creativity and passion to capture these events and turn them into captivating photographs.”

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MARIO DI BARI AbDOulAyE BARRY


Mario Di Bari began taking photographs as a teenager in a photo studio in Matera, Italy. Since then, he has de-veloped his style of photography and documented his travels in Europe. Commissioned by the World Food Programme to produce images in rural Ethiopia, he has presented exhibitions at Addis Ababa’s Italian Cultural Institute, the Alliance Ethio-Française, Southern Ethio-pia’s Cultural Centre in Konso, and the Palazzo Granaio in Settimo Milanese, Italy.

Many of Mario’s photos have been used by the Ethio-pian and italian press and in various publications, such as the books “Old Tracks in the New Flower” and “ A guide to lalibela” published by Arada Books and in As-ter Aweke and Addis Acoustic Project CD booklets. His archive includes many photos of Ethiopian and African musicians.

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Abdoulaye Barry had a keen eye for image and narra-tive from a young age. He takes his immediate society as a starting point and recounts the lives of the men and women around him. His series on street children was awarded the Jury Prize at the 2009 edition of Bam-ako Encounters, the Biennale of African Photography. The series “N’Djamena By Night” began by an encoun-ter with a young prostitute in 1995, and has developed into a body of work that explores the moral depravity amongst the youth with a critical yet discerning eye.

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Born in Addis Ababa in 1978, Addis Belete graduated with a diploma in Information Technology from Addis College. The son of the legendary photographer Be-lete Tekele, he learned photography at an early age by working in his father’s studio. He has also worked for the Addis Ababa city municipality in the Information and Cultural Bureau as a photo technician and photo-journalist. In the course of his time in the bureau, his work was published in the various government news-papers and magazines. Also, in collaboration with the National Museum and Addis Ababa university, Addis organized a photography exhibition as part of the 5th International Federalism Conference held at the ECA. Following in the footsteps of his father, Addis currently works as a full-time photographer and audiovisual ex-pert for the House of Federation in parliament, cover-ing various government activities around the country.

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Born in Bata in 1971 to a Spanish father and a Fang mother, in the 1990s Arturo Bibang trained in Madrid and london. Extensive travels in Equatorial Guinea, Spain, England, latin America and elsewhere trig-gered his interest in photojournalism. Since 2000, his recognition on the Spanish scene has led to assign-ments for various agencies and the daily El Mundo. Full of colour and light, his work homes in on faces, deserts and forms of solitude. Arturo now lives in Equatorial Guinea, exhibiting in his home country and abroad.

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MARIE ANGE BORDASPhotographer

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Through photography, video and sound, Marie Ange Bordas’s work explores intimacy between her subjec-tivity, her audience and the public. Dealing with issues of displacement, memory, loss and recovery, she aims to articulate the individual and collective through per-sonal experiences and their social implications to cre-ate space for discussion.

Marie often lives within the communities she is work-ing with, setting up creative workshops that lead to ex-hibitions and books. In Brazil, she has developed long term projects that promote visual literacy with indig-enous and afro-Brazilian communities.

She has been awarded a number of grants and inter-national residencies, including Plataforma Chocó/ Co-lombia, The leverhulme Trust/uK, The Bag Factory/South Africa, Kuona Trust/ Kenya, and ORTuNG/Aus-tria. Her work has been featured internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including the Noorderlicht Pho-toFestival 2009, the Bamako Photo Encounters 2007, and other venues in Brazil, the uS, Canada, South Af-rica, Kenya and Europe.

At the age of 16, Mohamed Camara began his relation-ship with photography whilst leafing through images in a magazine and confidently saying he could do that too. His first series, taken between 2000 and 2002, ti-tled “Chambres Maliennes,” documented interiors and exteriors using light, windows and doors to frame im-ages, are now part of the Deutsche Bank Collection. Mohamed’s instinctive approach to photography and ability to capture the decisive moment is clear in the series “Certains Matins,” 2006, which reveals intimate rituals whilst retaining their mystery through use of light and shadow. He highlights areas of his city, Bamako, which outsiders would not have access to, and thereby reveals something of the unknown. In the 2009 Bam-ako Encounters, the Biennale of African Photography, Mohamed presented the series “les Maliens á Paris,” which revealed the complexities of his self confessed ‘border identity’, which combined African and Europe-an elements. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including Beaux Arts Magazine and the Centre Pompidou Paris collection. His recent solo exhi-bition, “Souvenirs,” was hosted at Galerie 5 - université d’Angers, France.

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nESTOR DAPhotographer

AbATE DAMTEPhotographer


Nestor Da found his inspiration in the infinite possibili-ties to transform an image through the materiality of a photograph. To his own photographs, he adds found materials that he juxtaposes, confronts, paints and over-laps into a single image that deconstructs the original. Photographs are the raw material of Nestor Da’s art-works that assemble and collect fragments to unveil a new life for the images and build a singular universe on photographic paper. Nestor Da‘s work has been exhib-ited extensively in West Africa. He has held solo exhibi-tions at the Musée Mainssieux, Atelier 16, and la Vitrine in France; and at the CCF Georges Méliès de Ouaga-dougou in Burkina Faso. He has been included in collec-tive exhibitions at the Fondation Bullukian / Musée des Confluences, France; the Tarifa African Festival, Spain; the Bamako Encounters, African Photography Biennale, Mali, and the Centre d’Art Contemporain Badjidala, Mali. Nestor has received the Fondation Blachère “Young Cre-ation” Prize at the Bamako Encounters (2009) and the 2nd Prize PhotoAfrica Contest of the Centro Andaluz de Fotografía (2008).

Abate Damte is concerned with the inherent power of images as tools for story-telling. An image tells a story and that power has the ability to capture and transform lives. His commitment and passion for storytelling be-gan in his youth as he was captivated by images that spoke of the worlds wonders. He recalls “a dramatic cloudy sky fused with the natural beauty of a sunset” in the heart of his native city, Addis Ababa. His approach to each frame and engagement with his chosen sub-jects makes him visible, yet invisible within his chosen environment.

FATOuMATA DIABATEPhotographer

DElPhInE DIAW DIAllOPhotographer


Fatoumata Diabaté first studied photography at Pro-mo-femme: Center for Audio Visual Education for Young Women, attended the Cadre de promotion pour la formation en photographie (CFP) from 2002 to 2004, and pursued additional training in Switzerland. As a participant in the 2005 Bamako Biennale, she won the Afrique en Création prize when at the age of 25. The recipient of several international artist residencies, Fatoumata has participated in the 2007 and 2011 Bam-ako Biennales and exhibits internationally.

A graduate of the Académie Charpentier School of Visual Art in Paris, Delphine’s early work utilized mixed media to explore her personal voyages, particularly in her father’s hometown of Saint-louis, Senegal. She juxtaposes reality with imaginary conscience; fashion with documentary photographs; tradition with moder-nity. Her work has been featured in numerous interna-tional exhibitions, including “Voices of Home” (Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York) and her recent solo exhibi-tion, “The Great Vision: (M.I.A Gallery, Seattle).

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The son of a Tunisian father and French mother, Karim Didi became interested in cinema from an early age as he spent his childhood between both cultures. His first short feature, ‘Pigalle’, was selected for the Ven-ice Film Festival. The second short feature, ‘Bye Bye’, was selected for the un Certain Regards section at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. Karim aims to make so-cially engaged films, tuned into the struggles of daily life. He intends to contribute to the understanding and tolerance in order to ‘dive back’ into the realities of the world. He has worked alongside renowned actors and directors including Ken loach, Michel Galabru, Ar-ielle Domsbale and Patrick Bruel. His work has been recognised at various international film festival includ-ing Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000 and the Grand Prize of the Autrans International Mountain Film Festival in 2005. Karim is currently work-ing on various projects, including the last volume of his Marseille trilogy, “Kaïd,”and a feature film set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring. He is about to shoot “Galilee Quartet,” is adapting Bernard-Marie Koltès’ famous play, ‘Comats de Nègres et de Chiens’ and is writing a screenplay based on the novel, ‘Cour Nord’ by Antoine Choplin.

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Hasan and Husain Essop were born in Cape Town in 1985. They completed their undergraduate studies at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at university of Cape Town in 2006 and afterwards earned their Postgradu-ate Diploma in Art at Michaelis.

Their recent exhibitions include “Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography,” 2011, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, England; “Peek-a-boo Current South Africa,” 2011, at The Helsinki Art Muse-um, Finland; the Dak’Art Biennale, 2010, Senegal; and BREDAPHOTO 2010, The Netherlands.

In the past, they have exhibited at the Spier Contem-porary and Goodman Gallery, South Africa; the Johan-nesburg Art Fair and Art 39 Basel, both in 2008; and the prestigious Havana Biennale, under the theme, ‘In-tegration and Resistance in the Global Age’ in 2009. They are represented by the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Durban Art Gallery and the Spier collections, and held in local and international private collections.

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AlESSAnDRO GANDOlFI Photojornalist

yEMAnE GEBREMEDIHIN Photographer


Born in Parma in 1970, Alessandro Gandolfi has been working in photojournalism since 2001. He is a co-founder of Parallelozero Photo Agency, Milan. His works have appeared in Italian and internation-al, magazines, including National Geographic Italia, l’Espresso, la Repubblica delle Donne, Die Zeit, Mare, The Sunday Times Magazine, le Monde, and VSD. His pictures have been exhibited in the latest four shows organized in Rome by National Geographic. A philoso-phy graduate, Alessandro attended the prestigious Ifg – School of Journalism in urbino. Before working as a photojournalist, he contributed as a news reporter for la Repubbica, in Milan and Rome. He won National Geographic’s Best Edit Award twice, in 2010 and 2011), with two reportages published in the Italian edition of the American magazine.

Yemane Gebremedihin Gebresilasie was born in 1966 and received computer science diploma from IX ITIS of Milan and photography diploma from the European Institute of Design of Milan. He has worked as an assis-tant photographer for FOTOGRAFIA OGGI and Studio Majno in Milan, a freelance photographer for the Tibeb Studio and different Italian magazines, and an archivist for the Walta Information Center for the Afar Regional State Tourism Office. He has worked as a professional photographer for on-call assignments provided by uNAIDS since 2006, and by Organization of African First ladies Against HIV Aids (OAFlA) since 2008.

MAMADOu GOMIS SAMuEl HABTAB


As a teenager, Mamadou Gomis began taking photo-graphs in a studio in Gossas (Fatick), Senegal. Since 1998, he has a worked as a press photographer for a number of publications, including le Journal, New Ho-rizons and more recently, the media group Walfadjri. He has received numerous commissions from interna-tional organizations such as Plan, Oxfam and the World Food Programme. His photographs have won many awards and been presented in numerous international group exhibitions including “Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography.” In 2008, Mamadou was a participant in the Prêt-à-Partag-er workshop and touring exhibition, exploring transna-tional artistic dialogue on art, fashion and sport.

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Born in Addis Ababa in 1983, Samuel Habtab gradu-ated from Admas Collage in marketing managements and graphic design, and received a certificate diploma for photography at the Master Film and Photography School. As one of the founding members of the Ethio-pian Photographers Association, Samuel participated in 2011 Art and Photography Associations’ exhibition at the National Museum with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. He currently works as a staff photogra-pher at the Fortune newspaper.

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Award winning photographer, uche Okpa-Iroha was born in Enugu, Enugu State in the eastern part of Nigeria. uche holds a Bachelors of Technology degree in Food Science and Technology in 1997 from the Federal university of Technology, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. His main vision as a photographer is to raise awareness with the public and policy-makers on issues that affect local people and the environment. His main interest is in reportage and por-traits of ‘street’ people. uche is a founding member of the new Nigerian photography collective known as BlackBox, with the group exhibition, “lagos: Nocturnal Vibrations.” He was part of the 2-006 photography workshop, Foot-ballWorlds, at the Maracana Stadium in Ajegunle, lagos organised by the Goethe Institut and conducted by Ber-lin-based photographer, Akinbode Akinbiyi. uche won the second prize of the life in My City competition, 2007, organised by Rocana Nigeria limited in partnership with the Alliance Francaise, Enugu , for his photography work “late Nite Callers.” uche Okpa-Iroha lives and work in la-gos, Nigeria as a photographer and kidney health cam-paigner with the Kidney Watch Initiative (KIWI).

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Born in 1982 in Addis Ababa, Goitom Habtemariam Amleke was 14 years old and still in high school when he started working in a photography. For the last 15 years, he has worked in studio portrait, wedding, docu-mentary, and concert photography, and has participat-ed in a group exhibition in 2007 held at the National Museum, Addis Ababa.


AlA KHEIR

Ala Kheir is a Sudanese photographer and cinematog-rapher. His photographic scope covers a wide range of subjects and styles with an aim of self-reflection. His work draws on the similarities and differences in landscape, architecture and historic influences with an intimate and intuitive eye. He has been active in de-veloping the Sudanese Photographers’ group, which promotes the work of photographers from the region on a global scale. In 2011, he participated in the Invis-ible Borders project.

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MOhAMED KONATE

Mohamed Konaté is one of the leading figures of Mali’s art scene. He was born in 1978 in Bamako, Mali, where he studied Sculpture and Multimedia Arts. He works with the media of painting, photography and video, and is characterized by a very original aesthetic lan-guage.

In the video “Attraction”, Mohamed arranges marbles and balls that roll around, attract each other, collide, re-bound, and bounce up. These moments of movement and rest, attraction and repulsion can also be found, he says, in every society. But the metaphor he creates is open so that the viewers remain free to interpret it in their own ways.

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Florestan Korp is a studying photographer and visu-al artist. He was born and raised by a German father and Ethiopian mother in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. After eighteen years there, Florestan moved to Germany and went on to study in the Netherlands – first graphic design in Arnhem, then editorial photography in the Hague.

He aspires to work in Ethiopia and Europe alike, using motion and still photography to explore both places. He is currently working on documenting the circum-stances surrounding water in Ethiopia. Other projects mainly focus on identity issues, his mixed heritage, and life in the Netherlands.

Kyle laMere is a portrait photographer from Chicago, Il. He shoots a wide range of subjects – musicians, models, local artists, social entrepreneurs, all-around good folk, and the occasional pro wrestler.

Every session and every project he takes on, he treats it as an opportunity to capture something beautiful, in-spired, strange, or just plain rad. When he’s not haul-ing around Chicago, he regularly visits Ethiopia, where he volunteers as the Creative Director for the Awassa Children’s Project, a center that provides shelter, edu-cation, and healthcare to over 100 children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

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bAuDOuIn MOuANDAPhotographer

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Baudouin Mouanda began photography as a teen-ager and began working for various newspapers and magazines. In 2005, he represented Congo at the 5th Francophone Games in Niger. He participated in a residency at the Centre for Training and Development in Journalism, Paris, where he developed his body of work on the S.A.P.E (Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes - Society of Tastemakers and Ele-gant People) who livened up the Paris metro. Baudouin explores the history of sapeurs who played a vital role in Brazzaville in 1998-9 after the civil war, and their message of hope and tenacity. In 2009-10, the series he produced, la Sapologie, was presented in an ex-hibition titled “The Art of Being a Man” at the Musée Dapper in Paris and in 2011 as part of a solo exhibition. In 2009, he was awarded the Young Talent Award at the 2009 Bamako Encounters, the Biennale of African Pho-tography. He continues to publish regularly in Afrique magazine, Jeune Afrique, VSD, l’Express Style and Pla-nète Jeune.

Zanele Muholi was born in umlazi, Durban, in 1972. She completed an Advanced Photography course at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown and held her first solo exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2004.

She has worked as a community relations officer for the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), a black lesbian organisation based in Gauteng, and as a pho-tographer and reporter for Behind the Mask, an online magazine on lesbian and gay issues in Africa. Her work represents the black female body in a frank yet inti-mate way that challenges the history of the portrayal of black women’s bodies in documentary photography. She has held solo exhibitions at Michael Stevenson in Johannesberg and le Case d’Arte, Milan, and an ex-hibition alongside lucy Azubuike at the CCA lagos, Nigeria. Her work has travelled to the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg and the Afrovibes Festival in Amsterdam. She was the recipient of the 2005 Toll-man Award for the Visual Arts and the first BHP Billiton/Wits university Visual Arts Fellowship in 2006, and she was the 2009 Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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JEhAD NGA nII OBODAI


Jehad Nga was born in Smith Center, Kansas. After discovering the Natasha Merritt book ‘The Digital Dia-ries’ while attending uClA, Jehad began to take pho-tographs. Between 2001 and 2002, he spent months traveling through the Middle East, taking medical volunteering positions in Gaza and documenting the trips. Wanting to continue working as a medical volun-teer Jehad trained to become an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) in 2002 while interning at Magnum Photos. In 2003, he traveled to Iraq to cover the uS-led invasion. In the summer of 2003, he began working in Africa with his first trip to liberia. Since 2004, Jehad has been based in East Africa.

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Born in Accra, Ghana and having lived in England, Nige-ria and Ghana, Francis Nii Obodai Provencal is at ease with the vast and diverse worlds of his continent. His work mainly explores the urban and rural with an artist’s careful watching, a strong interest in history, and a love of stories.

Nii Obodai’s photographs are a conduit into a vibrant space. In his travels, he discovers and explores the mean-ing of the spiritual concept of Farafina, where zones be-tween tradition, improvisation and modernity merge.

Nii Obodai is presently based in Ghana where he works and lives. He facilitates inspirational workshops on pho-tography and continues to travel, exploring and record-ing the vibrant essence of life. Nii Obodai has exhibited in Accra, Paris, Bristol, Den Haag, Amsterdam, Bamako.

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EMEkA OKEREKE Photographer


Emeka Okereke, born in 1980, is a photographer who cur-rently lives and works between Paris, Berlin and lagos. He came in contact with photography in 2001. Over the past years, he has worked strictly in black & white, but he cur-rently employs other media (graphics, video, sound, and literature), which make his artistic practices more active and dynamic by the day. His works deals with society and human relationships, mingling aesthetics of conceptual photography and documentary. Emeka is a member of Depth of Field (DOF) collective, a group made up of six Nigerian photographers. In 2003, he won the Best Young Photographer award from the AFAA “Afrique en Créa-tion” in the 5th edition of the Bamako Photo Festival of photography. He has a Bachelors/Masters degree from the National Fine Art School of Paris and has exhibited in biennales and art festivals in different cities of the world, notably lagos, Bamako, Cape Town, london, Berlin, Bay-reuth, Frankfurt, Nurnberg, Brussels, Johannesburg, New York, Washington, Barcelona, Seville, Madrid, and Paris. He has also won several awards in Nigeria and Interna-tionally.

INVISIBLE BORDERS

A transAfrican photography project showcasing the journey of twelve photographers and a writer as they travel from lagos to Addis Ababa by local transportation. The show features photographers Ray Daniels Okeugo, Jumoke Sanwo, Amaize Ojeikere, lucy Azubuike, Chidinma Nnorom, Kemi Akin-Nibosun, Mario Macilau, Christain Nyampeta, Jide Odukoya, Emeka Okereke, uche Okpa-Iroha and Ala Kheir, and writer Em-manuel Iduma. The featured exhibition showcases t. The project, which was initially started in 2009, continues to delve into the topic of borders in Africa and various elements of contemporary society on the continent.

nyAbA lEON OuEDRAOGO nyAnI QuARMYNE


Following an injury that brought his athletic career to an end, Nyaba Ouedraogo turned to photography and worked as an assistant to Parisian photographer Jean-Paul Dekers. He co-founded Topics Visual Arts Platform, an online gallery and visual research tool. His Hell of Copper 2008 series documents electronic waste sent from Europe and America to Accra, Ghana. The images illuminate the lucrative, yet destructive nature of the industry at the dump at the Agloboshie Market. He is intent is “not showing images for what they depict, but what they transmit.” His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and in publications such as usbek & Rica. In 2010, he was the finalist in the la Planète Manche International Prize.

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Nyani comes from a multicultural background, having been born in India to a Ghanaian father and Filipino mother before moving on to Kenya, Zimbabwe, Swa-ziland, Canada, Australia, the uSA and finally Ghana in late 2009.

Being something of a cultural amalgam, and having been ‘rootless’ all his life, he has developed an innate ability to connect with people, which has been some-thing of an anchor point in his life. His work hinges on the sameness that he sees in all people. Through his work, he strives to harness the power of photography to create a visceral emotional connection between viewer and viewed; the power of an image to remind us of our shared humanity and shared responsibilities to each other and the planet.

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SAMuEl TAYE bElETE TEKElEPhotographer


Samuel Taye was born in Addis Ababa, lived in Djibou-ti and the uS, and returned to Addis Ababa in 2012. After watching a documentary on the Artist laureate Afewerk Tekle at a young age, Samuel aspired to be-come an artist and was encouraged by his father in his chosen path of creativity. He enrolled in various cours-es at Addis Ababa university, Virginia Tech and Nova Community College.

Through photography, he explores cultural changes, tracing the blurred boundary between tradition and modernity. In 2007, he participated in the Ethiopian Millenium Art exhibition held at the Blackburn univer-sity Center, Howard university, Washington DC.

Samuel has contributed to the 360doc.org documen-tary projects and worked with Tsehai Publishers and Eskinder Woubetu + Partners Architecture and Engi-neering Consultants. He curently works as a graphic designer with DFA Creative Consulting PlC.

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Born in 1936 near Addis Ababa, Belete Tekele began his photography career in the 1960s as a photogra-pher for the municipality of Addis Ababa. Belete’s port-folio is a collection of images that spans three periods of Ethiopia’s political history. He has photographed various international officials and presidents while they visited Addis Ababa, such H.I.M Haile Selassie, Fidel Castro and Col. Mohamed Gadafi. Starting from 1960 until the end of 1990, he has documented the urban and societal of development. He has shot for the city administration and worked on numerous papers and magazines in the city. He is currently retired and lives in Addis Ababa.

PETTERIk WIGGERS PATRIck WOKMENI


Petterik Wiggers has been working as a photographer and cameraman in Africa for over twenty years. Based in Addis Ababa, he travels all over Africa for his picture stories.Wiggers has been commissioned by interna-tional media like Time Magazine, los Angeles Times, Wired Magazine, New York Times, Guardian, Financial Times, Observer, Monocle, etc. He also works for uN-HCR and WFP and international NGOs. His works in-clude the installation ‘Black Roots’: a project on the cul-tural relationships and similarities in the Afro-American Diaspora, West Africa, South America and the Neth-erlands, 1997-2003; “living under Constant Threat”: AV/installation on civilians living in conflict situations, MSF/Holland, in Germany, Holland, Canada, Somalia, 2002; and “Great Expectations,” international project on pregnancy and birth, World Health Organization (WHO), Ethiopia, 2004-2010. Among other awards, he was honoured with the National Photojournalist Award in the Netherlands. Petterik is represented by Holland-seHoogte Photo Agency, Netherlands and Panos Pic-tures, uK.

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Patrick Wokmeni was born in Douala (Cameroon) in 1985. An emerging photographer, he trained with Bru-no Boudjelal, Bill Akwa Betote, Philippe Niorthe and Nicolas Eyidi and, for four years now, has been roam-ing the streets of his hometown to document nightlife, dark corners, bars and nightclubs, and depict the ex-perience of city dwellers from his generation. His work reflects his concern with the mundane and speaks to the reality of his social environment. Wokmeni casts an empathetic gaze on the youth living in the challenging neighborhood of New Bell in Douala and their aspira-tion to a better life. His pictures seek to capture their daily lives made of rebellion, illusory dreams and quite often, weariness.

Monique Pelser, lecturer in Fine Art Photography at Wits School of Art, Johannesburg, writes that Wokmeni reminds her of “a flaneur; an idler walking the streets at night witnessing the beauty and sadness in debauch-ery, decay and social crisis.” She notes how potently the presence of the photographer is felt by the fact that the photographed subjects often look directly at the camera.

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PuMA is proud to present the works of 7 international filmmakers as open content to be shown at the World Peace Festival 2011. “Peace starts with me” is the theme for a new annual PuMA.Peace commission. This year, seven international artists and filmmakers created original works. Curated by PuMA.Creative Chief Cura-tor, Mark Coetzee, and produced by Shooting People, these films encompass a diverse range of styles; in-cluding 35mm live action, experimental animation and fine art. Conceived as 30 to 90 second films to facilitate online as well as live screenings, the works are based on the idea that “peace starts with me.” PuMA.Peace commissioned these films under an agreement with the artists that they can openly be downloaded and shown, without any fees, thus acting as ongoing tools for peace-for-all. The filmmakers range from world-re-nowned award-winning artists to recent graduates; all were selected for the quality and scope of their work and their sensitivity in interpreting this year’s theme.

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Films for Peace/Puma Peace

Featuring feature a collection of images from around Africa in collaboration with the life In My City Art Festival (lIMCAF) based in Enugu, Nigeria, Curator: Kevin Ejiofor

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Featuring 12 photographers and video artists, the projection is a showcase of the multitude of visual artistic talents in Africa and the Diaspora. As part of the “On the Roof” project and curated by Elise Atangana, Yves Chatap and Christine Eyene, the projection is an opportunity for the audience to witness the power of moving and still images.

Andrew Dosunmu is a Nigerian photographer and filmmaker who came to prominence in the united States after directing music videos for various acclaimed artists like Isaac Hayes, Angie Stone, Common, Tracy Chapman, Wyclef Jean, Kelis, Aaron Neville, Talib Kweli and Maxwell. The 2011 drama film ‘Restless City’ premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Dosunmu currently lives between New York and lagos, Nigeria.

Featured in the Color of the Nile Film Festival and winner of Best feature/cinematography RESTlESS CITY(80 minutes) tells the story of an Africa immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle, and falling in love is his greatest risk.

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The Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments) is an educational research project initi-ated by Prof. Olafur Eliasson, directed by Eric Ellingsen and Christina Werner. It is affiliated to the College of Fine Arts at the Berlin university of the Arts (udK). The program of the Institut für Raumexperimente includes lectures, workshops, exhibitions, experiments and teaching collaborations. From Octobe to December 2012, the institute has moved to the Alle School of Fine Art and Design, university of Addis Ababa. Twenty-five of the institute’s participants are living, working, and learning together in Addis.

For the Addis Foto Festival 2012, some of the partici-pants will be producing site-specific works engaging public space and the perception of images in the city.

InSTITuT FüR RAuMExPERIMEnTEProject


AFF TAlkS I:

AFF TAlkS II:

With the increased interest on contemporary art from Africa, various trends and forms of expression have become visible in the international art market. In the first of the AFF Talks, cu-rators Elvira Dyangani Ose, Michket Krifa and Marina Reina. delve into questions that arise on the position of art from Af-rica as it relates to other parts of the world.

Moderator: Marie Ange Bordas

John Fleetwood Nick Danziger Frédéric Lafargue

The photography and art market in Africa.

(Tuesday) December 7, 2012

Location: Alliance Ethio-Française Theater

(Friday) December 5, 2012

Location: Italian Cultural Institute Theater

Photojournalism and media in Africa.

Elvira Dyangani Ose Michket Krifa Marina Reina

The role of photography in news media has played a key role in disseminat-ing images on stories not often accessible to various parts of the world. While images have become more accessable than ever through the globalization of online media, photograhers from Africa have had limited access to this market, and often the realities of the continent are documented through photographers who travel considerable distance to capture newsworthy images for press. Cu-rator John Fleetwood and photographer Nick Danzinger ask the question, how can photographers on the continent compete in the international market?

Moderator: Akinbode Akinbiyi

ADDIS FOTO FEST PORTFOlIO REvIEW

REvIEWERS:

ELvIRA DyANGANI OSEJOHN FLEETWOOD NICK DANzIGER

As part of supporting the development of photographers in Ethiopia, the Portfolio Review is an opportunity for ten nominated photog-raphers to be reviewed by visiting professionals and curators from the international market. The three-day review session is an intense one-on-one process that gives the photographers feedback on the strength of their work and also the tools they will need to improve their skills. The review is specifically geared towards working photojournalists in the various publications of Addis Ababa.

MICHKET KRIFAAKINBODE AKINBIyI

2012 program

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