Have been starting to plan the Elephant and Castle project. I visited a family living in Elephant and Castle who came over from Azezo in Amhara, Ethiopia, where I was taking pictures for Ethiopia Link and Aysanew Kassa Trust last October. I was thinking of doing the project around the Ethiopian community in the area - portraits of the family, with particular emphasis on the elements of Ethiopian culture that have been transposed from Ethiopia and adapted to life in South London. It was interesting to see that there is a coffee ceremony in Elephant and Castle, just like in Ethiopia, the only difference being that there is an automatic coffee grinder. The picture is of three generations of the family I stayed with in Azezo.
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I really like this picture. I love the girl on the mobile phone in the background. Technology amazes me... That your subjects in this picture still seem to live quite primitively, but they have all the modern "conveniences" of the west is baffling. They likely don't have clean water, but have access to mobile technology. It really is amazing...
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