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Eric Gottesman was a Hart Fellow with Save the Children-US in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia from 1999-2000. Initially, he documented the potential famine
in the Somali Region of southeastern Ethiopia and helped produce reports that
led to USAID allocating $2 million to Save the Children for emergency assistance.
During the second part of his fellowship, he produced the HIV and AIDS work that
appears on this website in cooperation with two Addis Ababa community-based
organizations, Medical Missionaries of Mary Counseling and Social Services
Center and Yehiwot Tesfa Counseling and Social Services Center. Local exhibits
of these photographs and texts, supported by the Mayor of Addis Ababa, attracted
hundreds of visitors, received national media coverage and contributed to the
trend of openness about HIV/AIDS that is slowly building in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia.
Eric graduated from Duke in 1998. His work as a photographer specializes in
providing advocacy tools to local, national and international non-profit
organizations through collaborative documentary work and participatory
photography. His documentary work has been exhibited and supported in Ethiopia,
Kenya and the United States by such organizations as Save the Children, Plan
International, UNICEF, the Ethiopian Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Duke
University and various government embassies. Eric has published his photographs
and writing in the International Herald-Tribune, The Washington Post, The Wall
Street Journal, New Hampshire Magazine and was featured in the 2003 book, 25
Under 25, a survey of work from 25 young American photographers. His work is
also featured in the 2004 book, Black! A Celebration of Culture, edited by
Deborah Willis. In 2003, Eric married Sara Green, and they returned to Ethiopia
to continue conducting photographic work on HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia.
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