Ethiopia - people out of crowd series.
Victor Bezrukov
Photographer, Storyteller, Life Photographer
based in israel
I visited Ethiopia with small team of filmmakers, during their last trip of finishing their documentary movie "Jerusalem Dream" about Ethiopian Jewish community people evacuated to Israel in 1984-85. Most of them walked the way throught all the territory of Ethiopia to the border of Sudan. The points of our visits were the Northern area close to Sudan and Eritrea. All this area was under the civil war that began on 3 November 2020 in the Tigray Region.
Initially i wanted to call this post “isolated subjects” but stopped myself – “isolated” is such not right word about the people of this country – mostly they do everything in groups – small or big, but “gathering” is description for everything – you can see the last photo of this post – these kids just walked together their usual way to bring home water. looks like party, right ?
But alongside with gathering people, i put my attention to the other kind of hanging out – to be alone, to go far without happy company, to sit alone or to meditate in the middle of nothing. Possible these HUGE and EMPTY spaces made them even more lonely. They fascinated me as well as lonely spaceships furrowing infinite spaces.
Every image of this story is available for immediate licensing.
Photography © Victor Bezrukov
Initially i wanted to call this post “isolated subjects” but stopped myself – “isolated” is such not right word about the people of this country – mostly they do everything in groups – small or big, but “gathering” is description for everything – you can see the last photo of this post – these kids just walked together their usual way to bring home water. looks like party, right ?
But alongside with gathering people, i put my attention to the other kind of hanging out – to be alone, to go far without happy company, to sit alone or to meditate in the middle of nothing. Possible these HUGE and EMPTY spaces made them even more lonely. They fascinated me as well as lonely spaceships furrowing infinite spaces.
Every image of this story is available for immediate licensing.
Photography © Victor Bezrukov
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