Tag: street scene
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.