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I made these photographs with Sudden Flowers, an art collective I co-founded with children in one neighborhood in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Since 1999, we have made photographs, films and art installations about their lives. In 2004, seven children and I made these photographs in response to the question: “Who Would You Be If You Weren’t Who You Are?” I conceived of this question as a way to imagine what lies outside the limitations of the camera’s frame, outside the limits of our understanding of one another, to better understand what I could not see. I posed the question; the children posed for the camera. This revealed other questions that led us to other photographs like: “What was the worst day of your life?" and “What is the future?" |