The Maison Carrée (the French translates roughly as ‘square house’) is a Roman temple of the Imperial Cult, dedicated to the young heirs of M. Vipsanius Agrippa, but later converted to a Christian church, and now being restored (thus the scaffold covering on the right). It sits in a large square (formerly the Roman forum) [...]

Watching the Meskel fire, before heading off to local celebrations held by communities throughout the city.

A dog just awakes from its nap in the middle of a cobblestone alley, in Addis Ababa. I took a couple photos of this serene-looking dog before I decided that I really wanted some eye contact, which I achieve by calling out to it “salaam, wusha. . . “* Well, it turns out that this [...]

A farmer winnows his chickpeas, on the road from Bichena to Bichena Gyorgis church.  In case you are unfamiliar with the process, after the stalks have been thoroughly beaten or trod upon by oxen (threshing), to break the seeds out of the pods and break them away from the remaining pods and stalks (the chaff), [...]

The culmination of the evening’s celebrations is the lighting of the huge pile of Meskel Flowers by the Patriarch and VIP guests. This year, the fire was a bit slow to take off, smoking and sparking before bursting into flame.