The Sudden Flowers Arts Collective

The photographs in this gallery are produced by the Sudden Flowers which is the first AIDS art collective in Ethiopia. Sudden Flowers art collective consists of children between the ages of 9 to 17 in the Shiromeda neighborhood of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia who lost their parents to AIDS. The creator of Sudden Flowers, Eric Gottesman started the collective in 1998 to offer children of Addis Ababa a creative outlet to navigate feelings of grief and loss after being displaced from their families. Through the works produced by the Sudden Flowers collective, we are able to center children in dialogues and scholarship about AIDS/HIV.

These photographs were taken by the Sudden Flowers collective, the first AIDS art collective in Ethiopia that consists of children between the ages of 9 to 17. Having lost their parents to AIDS, the Sudden Flowers collective use art as a means to navigate feelings of grief and loss.

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Photographs take by the members of the Sudden Flowers art Collective See all items with this value

Eric Gottesman, the Sudden Flowers Collective,

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