One of the fresh voices on the Ethiopian contemporary art scene, she crosses borders and disciplines to take Ethiopian art to new heights. Photo courtesy of Bernard DumerchezThe artist has engaged in many fruitful collaborations and received increasingly high-profile opportunities to exhibit her art. I was first introduced to photography at a young age by my father, who owned photography a studio,” Selome tells me over Skype. She was exposed to studio work such as retouching, lighting, hand coloring, and glazing machines from an early age. Upon moving to Addis Ababa as a teenager, she joined Abyssinia Art School and Studio ‘under the directorship of Gash Worku’.

Source: Ethiopian News September 17, 2022 21:47 UTC