Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: CHRISTOPH, Henning
Event Date: 1974
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.058070

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: ETHIOPIA / Drought; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR; stamped: Photo and Copyright by / Henning Christoph / 43 Essen / Feuerbachstrasse 5//7 / Germany / Tel.: (0201) 73 11 27 + 79 80 89 / Volksbank Essen 395 070 / Postscheckkonto Essen 1066 29-438 / NEG. NR C4422//35 [number handwritten]; typed label: C 4422//35…Camp Ruga//Ethiopia…March-April 1974 / As they have done for centuries, the women of Ruga still / fill their water jugs at a small stream outside the village. / Water drilling is one of the development projects most / urgently needed in Ethiopia.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: ETHIOPIA / DROUGHT, FAMINE, RUGA CAMP
Retouching: N