🕐 3 DAYS UNTIL "SUDDEN FLOWERS” “It is important now to tell the stories to a broader audience to place social value on the pictures and voices of Sudden Flowers’ members and …”

Don’t miss the drop of "Sudden Flowers” on Assembly Curated. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2022 11:11 AM EST Join the Assembly Discord to be the first to hear the announcement → discord.gg/SQqVMybhFV Assembly Curated → nft.assembly.art

Join me and Sudden Flowers on Assembly Curated Twitter Spaces tomorrow to hear about our long-term collaboration in a neighborhood in #AddisAbaba #Ethiopia. We are launching NFTs of this project to add to the conversation about who gets to participate in new digital spaces.

In advance of the #SuddenFlowers NFT with launch Assembly Curated this week, I’m thinking back on all our exhibitions together over the years, including my first ever photo show in #AddisAbaba City Hall in 2000. Also the first exhibition about HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia.

Sudden Flowers Exhibition. British Council, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2000.

Yawoinshet, 2003. Woini is an incredible teacher to me and so many others. She introduced me to a group of kids living together in Addis Ababa in 1999 after their parents died of AIDS, and that is how #SuddenFlowers began. We worked together for over a decade. Assembly Curated

In 2006, after showing the work of #suddenflowers in #addisababa, we decided to tour it around Ethiopia in a traveling coffee ceremony called #AbulThonaBaraka. We showed pictures, talked with audiences and served coffee in small towns, cities and villages.

General is Kissing the Girl, 2004. Photograph by Tenanesh Kifyalew. Assembly Curated

Banded Passport Pictures, 2004. Assembly Curated

🕐 1 DAY UNTIL "SUDDEN FLOWERS” "Sudden Flowers is only Book One of this project. It is my history, my childhood. I want to share it with my kids when they grown up. We have to keep telling our stories because we keep living our lives." - Yamrot Alemu of Sudden Flowers

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Such a great conversation... very powerful to listen to Eric Gottesman and Sudden Flowers members talking about experiences of making together, the role of photography in processing grief and trauma, imagining the future, and the beauty of collaboration. x.com/AssemblyCurate…

This collection of collaborative works by Eric Gottesman / Sudden Flowers is deeply moving and speaks to the real power of photography. I encourage everyone to spend some time with it today. Wow. nft.assembly.art/collections/su…

Don’t miss the "Sudden Flowers” collection on Assembly Curated, a powerful project by Eric Gottesman in collaboration with Sudden Flowers, an art collective of young people in Addis Abba, Ethiopia. nft.assembly.art/collections/su…

Sudden Flowers # 41 from Sudden Flowers by Eric Gottesman in collaboration with Sudden Flowers Explore more on Assembly Curated nft.assembly.art

Sudden Flowers # 78 from “Sudden Flowers” by Eric Gottesman in collaboration with Sudden Flowers Explore more on Assembly Curated nft.assembly.art