An employee scoops freshly roasted beans at the Nure coffee roastery in Harar, Ethiopia.
Tag: Harar
Woman in Street #5, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009
At the Butcher’s (Woman in Street #4), Harar, Ethiopia, 2009
A woman stops at the Italian market, to purchase meat from one of the stalls. In addition to goat, sheep, and cow, the locals consider camel meat to be a delicacy, and the butcher’s at the Italian market carry such.
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I was consciously trying to capture scenes of women traveling through the walled streets of Harar. There are few vehicles in the Jubol (the old city), and all kinds of errands are carried out by hand and foot.
Sorry for the less-than-inspired title.
Woman in Street #3, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009
A woman in earth-tones nicely matches the color of a wall with fading whitewash. Shortly afterwards, in preparation for Ramadan, all the walls and houses of the city were freshly repainted and whitewashed, and all those that could afford new clothes purchased them.
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I was consciously trying to capture scenes of women traveling through the walled streets of Harar. There are few vehicles in the Jubol (the old city), and all kinds of errands are carried out by hand and foot.
Sorry for the less-than-inspired title.
Woman in Street #2, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009
Two women talk as they carry goods along the streets of the lower part of the Jubol.
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I was consciously trying to capture scenes of women traveling through the walled streets of Harar. There are few vehicles in the Jubol (the old city), and all kinds of errands are carried out by hand and foot.
Sorry for the less-than-inspired title.
Woman in Street #1, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009
A woman carrying firewood in a blue scarf nicely complements the painted doorway to a multi-family compound.
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I was consciously trying to capture scenes of women traveling through the walled streets of Harar. There are few vehicles in the Jubol (the old city), and all kinds of errands are carried out by hand and foot.
Sorry for the less-than-inspired title.
The Coke Shop #2, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009
Coke and other Coca-Cola branded bottles for re-use, inside the bottle distributor in Harar.
The Coke Shop, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009
Coke Ads, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009
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Suggestive and sexualized coke advertising, in the form of this poster, is all over the city of Harar.
All this week: Coke ads in Harar.
“Follow me for refreshment” #2, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009
A woman covers her head as she walks through the exhaust from the cola truck. Whether due to the exhaust or the camera, I cannot say.
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Incongruous Coca-Cola advertising in Harar, a elsewhere in Ethiopia, is an ommnipresent aspect of the landscape. To see such a colorful and professional vehicle, among plain and run-down cars and trucks on the dusty walled streets of Harar, is quite strange.
All this week: Coke ads in Harar.