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Aïda Muluneh (born 1974, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) Ethiopian photographer, educator, and entrepreneur known for her Afrofuturist photography that incorporates vibrant colours and body painting [1] to create surreal scenes. Muluneh won the European Union Prize at African Photography Encounters and the CRAF International Award of Photography.
There are 12 World Heritage Sites in Ethiopia, with a further six on the tentative list. [3] The first two sites in Ethiopia added to the list were the Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela, and the Simien National Park, both at the Second Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Washington, D.C., in 1978. [4]
On 9 June 1992, a former professor of Ethiopian Studies at the University of London, Edward Ullendorff, declared that he personally examined the ark contained within the church in 1941 while serving as an officer of the British Army. He described the ark as empty, and a “Middle- to late-medieval construction [from] when these were fabricated ...
The rock-cut Church of Saint George, Lalibela (Biete Ghiogis) Ethiopian painting decepting Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam and his armies. Prehistoric rock art comparable to that of other African sites survives in a number of places, and until the arrival of Christianity stone stelae, often carved with simple reliefs, were erected as grave-markers and for other purposes in many regions; Tiya is one ...
Michael Tsegaye (born 1975 in Addis Ababa) is an Ethiopian artist and photographer. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Much of his work presents a glimpse of life in contemporary Ethiopia, although an extended catalogue of his images come from his travels abroad.
The Ethiopian Church, also Coptic, developed on Coptic traditions, but shows Jesus and all Biblical figures with the Ethiopian appearance of its members. [citation needed] Other traditions in China, Central Asia and elsewhere generally depict the appearance of Jesus as that of the local population (see the gallery below). [citation needed]
The Zoma Museum, formerly known as the Zoma Contemporary Art Center (ZCAC), [1] [2] is an environmentally conscious artist in residency project with locations in Addis Ababa and Harla, a historical village near Dire Dawa in Ethiopia. [3]