Addis Foto Fest is a photography festival held biennially in
Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ...
,
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
. It takes place over a week in December.
The festival was founded in 2010
by
Aida Muluneh
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and continues to be organised by the company she established,
DESTA for Africa Creative Consulting.
In 2010, there were four participating photographers, in 2014, there were 95,
[Meheret Selassie Mokonnen,]
Ethiopia: Addis Foto Fest to Gather Photography Buffs
. AllAfrica.com
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, 29 November 2014. Accessed 8 October 2018. and in 2016, there were 126.
See also
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African Photography Encounters
African Photography Encounters (french: Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie) is a biennial exhibition in Bamako, Mali, held since 1994. The exhibition, featuring exhibits by contemporary African photographers, is spread over several Bamako ...
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Art biennials in Africa
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Lagos Photo
LagosPhoto Festival is the first international art festival of photography in Nigeria, launched in October 2010. It is organised by the African Artists’ Foundation (AAF) as part of an ongoing project designed to use art in public spaces, as a ...
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Photography festivals
Art festivals in Africa
Photography in Africa
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