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Girma Berta on Documenting the Streets of His Ethiopian Hometown

Girma will be exhibiting his work at this year’s Photoville (@photovillenyc) festival in Brooklyn, taking place September 21-25. To see more of his work, check out @gboxcreative on Instagram.

Girma Berta (@gboxcreative) takes to the streets of his hometown Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to document the fruit stands and the shoe shiners, the young and the old, the delivery boys and the shopkeepers — and everything in between. “I look for people with a great story that I feel like needs to be captured. I also look for their lively interaction with each other and their environment,” says the 26-year-old photographer and a recipient of this year’s Getty Images Instagram Grant. “I am trying to address the immortalizing of my city’s current state, and so much that has been lost in the past without being properly documented.”

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Connected and a Little Out of Place with @malinfezehai

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“You grow up with this sense of always being a little out of place,” says photojournalist Malin Fezehai (@malinfezehai), describing her childhood in an immigrant neighborhood of Stockholm, where she grew up with a Swedish mother, an Eritrean father and an Egyptian stepfather. Now based in Brooklyn, New York, Malin travels around the world, immersing herself in disparate communities, ranging from the war-torn lives of women in Sri Lanka to African refugees in Israel. “You don’t feel like you have one cultural identity and you tend to be able to connect with all kinds of people,” she explains. “That feeling is one of the reasons why I think I gravitate toward displaced communities in my work. The feeling of otherness is something I feel very connected to.”

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Uncovering the Rock Churches of Lalibela in Northern Ethiopia

To view more photos and videos of the rock churches of northern Ethiopia, browse the #Lalibela hashtag and location page.

Nine hundred years ago, workers set out to construct a new holy city in the northern highlands of Ethiopia. Instead of building from the ground up, they began chiseling down into the red volcanic rock. Believed to be built with the assistance of angels working through the night, the 11 rock-hewn churches of Lalibela were carved into giant blocks of sandstone and connected through a series of tunnels, ceremonial passageways, drainage ditches and caves.

Today, Lalibela is one of Ethiopia’s most holy cities and carries the nickname of “New Jerusalem.” It has been a pilgrimage site for Christians for centuries and continues to be a destination for worship and daily devotion for the priests, monks and orthodox Christians who comprise the town’s population. Tourists from around the world now also trek to Lalibela to marvel at its stunning architectural accomplishments. Though all of the original churches are still in active use, many of the structures are considered to be in critical condition as a result of water damage and seismic activity. UNESCO declared Lalibela a world-heritage site in 1978 and has organized support to restore the monuments. A number of the churches are now protected under temporary light-weight shelters.

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