Photography
Yodith Dammlash
Ethiopian-American Artist, Yodith Dammlash shares images from her ongoing series, The Names We Bear
Artist Statement:
The Names We Bear is an ongoing series of digital collages using photographs of my mother’s family in Ethiopia dating back as early as the 1940s to the 1970s. I’ve scanned and archived over 300 photographs, negatives and slides and used my family’s oral history along with my own imagined reality of the subjects, some of whom I’ve never met, as the basis for selecting which images to combine and superimpose. Not many people of my parent’s generation in the Diaspora have this wealth of old photographs, due to lack of resources or the displacement of personal items during exodus. Reworking these images allows me to make sense of the stories I’ve been told over the years, from the carefree moments to the tragedies.
List of Works:
Blue, 2014-2015. Courtesy of the Artist
Brothers, 2014-2015. Courtesy of the Artist
Dream, 2014-2015. Courtesy of the Artist
Father figure, 2014-2015. Courtesy of the Artist
Sisters, 2014-2015. Courtesy of the Artist
Four, 2014-2015. Courtesy of the Artist
Namesakes, 2014-2015. Courtesy of the Artist
May 2020. Vol nº1