{"id":276344,"date":"2019-05-18T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEF_bt5UeJmAa8iRkUQGOs38qFAgEKg0IACoGCAowm_EEMKAiMIpb?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:27:46","slug":"the-atlantic-profiled-aida-mulunehs-fight-against-visual-cliches-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276344","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic profiled A\u00efda Muluneh\u2019s fight against visual clich\u00e9s of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its June 2019 magazine, The Atlantic featured Ethiopian photographer A\u00efda Muluneh, whose bright, staged images push back against the usual foreign pictures of famine, war, and dust that still define Ethiopia for many outside viewers.<\/p>\n\"The\n

Muluneh\u2019s work explores Ethiopian identity through color, costume, and carefully built scenes, and her Addis Foto Fest aimed to give African photographers a platform to shape how the continent is seen rather than only how it is consumed.<\/p>\n

Visual stereotypes are not a soft side issue for Horn readers. They shape aid pitches, investment stories, and diaspora memory as much as any policy brief.<\/p>\n

Kept as culture and arts archive, the Atlantic note dates Muluneh\u2019s international profile in 2019 and the argument that Ethiopian image-making belongs in Ethiopian hands.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Photographer Fighting Visual Cliches of Africa  The AtlanticA\u00efda Muluneh’s vibrant images explore Ethiopian identity, and her photo festival aspires to shape a new vision of the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":601742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19Ta","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754818,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276344\/revisions\/754818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}