Safe as Milk

Link(s) of the day

Way back at the start of 2005, nineteen Ethiopian youths were given cameras and asked to document their lives in a photo blog – the result was Ethiopia Lives.

At the end of the year, due to some technical issues, the site ceased being updated and now the photo blog is housed on Flickr.

Not only is the standard of the photography excellent, the stories and the images give you an insight into what life is like for normal Ethiopians, far from the almost dehumanised photos of famine you associate with the country in the West. It’s what Hugh MacLeod calls “reaching people on a human scale”. And it’s very effective.