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When this project started, only photographers had cameras. I didn’t have a cell phone. I used Polaroid positive-negative film (yes film!) which allowed photographer and subject to see the image at the same time. That was radical in 1999!
We published #SuddenFlowers with @FishbarBooks in 2014, launching in London and at @AddisFotoFest. Before it was published, I circulated 10+ drafts among members of the collective. It took us 15 years to publish. It was worth the wait.
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In 2006, after showing the work of #suddenflowers in #addisababa, we decided to tour it around Ethiopia in a traveling coffee ceremony called #AbulThonaBaraka. We showed pictures, talked with audiences and served coffee in small towns, cities and villages.
Yawoinshet, 2003. Woini is an incredible teacher to me and so many others. She introduced me to a group of kids living together in Addis Ababa in 1999 after their parents died of AIDS, and that is how #SuddenFlowers began. We worked together for over a decade. @AssemblyCurated
In advance of the #SuddenFlowers NFT with launch @AssemblyCurated this week, I’m thinking back on all our exhibitions together over the years, including my first ever photo show in #AddisAbaba City Hall in 2000. Also the first exhibition about HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia.
Join me and Sudden Flowers on @AssemblyCurated Twitter Spaces tomorrow to hear about our long-term collaboration in a neighborhood in #AddisAbaba #Ethiopia. We are launching NFTs of this project to add to the conversation about who gets to participate in new digital spaces.
In Sudden Flowers, I learned so much from so many about finding joy in processing hard things together; it helped me figure out how to be an artist and a better person. Thank you @AssemblyCurated for bringing the pictures we made together to new audiences!
We are pleased to announce “Sudden Flowers,” a project by @EricGottesman in collaboration with Sudden Flowers, an art collective of young people in Addis Abba.
Just posted a photo @ Parrish Art Museum instagram.com/p/ChKpFp5rKHs/… – at New York, USA
Just posted a photo @ Parrish Art Museum instagram.com/p/ChKjph1LWC0/… – at New York, USA
Just posted a photo @ Greenwich, Connecticut instagram.com/p/ChKjiG2LHkP/… – at Greenwich, CT
My first-ever NFT in #TogetherWeAreAwake an NFT exhibition on @DoinGudHQ with @wideawakes_eth @IslndNFT @forfreedoms #DoinGud17sdgs Proceeds of my NFT support tuition for my co-creator of the NFT (and friend), Yamrot, to attend nursing school.
ALT An invitation to an NFT exhibition with the @wideawakes and @doingud
I’m excited to be part of #doingud17sdgs drop with my first NFT, a revisit of Sudden Flowers, a decade-long collaboration with young people in #Addisababa, #Ethiopia. Thanks to @wyattgallery @AnyadeRogue for including me and 16 other🔥 artists. @WideAwakes2020 @wideawakes_eth
Tonight, at a conference @tuftsuniversity @fletchercgia on radical optimism, gender and international affairs… I love being married to a radical optimist @jambeege 💕 instagram.com/p/CWeJOamlOYT/…