In Ethiopia With Seeds

As many of you may know, last summer my darling Luke and I traveled to Ethiopia to teach for and work with an education and community development nonprofit called Seeds Of Africa. During my time there I took many photographs of the children and the community as well as taught the students photography . When I returned home I thought about the many photographs that now sit on a hard drive and decided to put together a gallery show to share what Seeds Of Africa is doing to my community here in Madison, Wi. Adama, the city where we were is about the same size as Madison and in many ways they are similar, so it is only fitting to share with you all my experience, my photographs and together raise some money to help Seeds Of Africa continue with all of the things they are doing. The opening is this Saturday, April 26th at the Common Wealth Gallery located at 100 S. Baldwin St. Madison, WI. We will be there from 6-10pm with Yes Coffee Roasters sampling Ethiopian pour overs, as well as some lovely coffee donated by Johnson Public House - Brown Rice and Honey is baking some delicious goodies, there will be a raffle  and DJ ASUMAYA (aka Luke) will be spinning some Ethiopian cassette tapes that we found on our days off.

The gallery will be open until May 2nd, which there will be a closing reception from 5-9pm for Madison's Gallery Night.

Adria & Chris

I love when I get to be introduced to friends when I book weddings, these two I like and I am so excited to photograph their wedding in June!  Chris plays in a few bands in town and Adria works for Planet Propaganda and together they run a screen printing and letterpress company in their basement called Radish & Clover Press. A few weekends back I met them at their home to take some photographs of them making their wedding invites as well as play me some tunes. We then ventured to BB Clark to a certain bench where in the beginning of their story when they lived in different cities these two spent an afternoon talking, neither one wanted to get up because it would mean that Adria would have to leave to go home - a sweet beginning to a lovely story. And a big thanks to Adria who designed my poster for my upcoming Gallery show that you should all come to!