“I was definitely that little kid eating dirt and licking rocks and going into my grandmother’s garden and picking and eating all of her raspberries (even when I shouldn’t have been). I was very much in it as a little kid. Which is why I think I like wine. I like tasting things.”

Travel and visual storytelling came hand in hand for me. When I was a child I was cultivating my artistic sensibility and I tended to lean toward art that was surreal and fantastical — maybe to compensate for growing up in rows of houses that looked the same. Even the concept of cities that towered over things was inherently romantic. Whenever I travelled somewhere new, I wanted photography to reflect the different worlds that open when you embrace new ways of seeing them.

They say you can tell a lot about a person by the contents of their bag. But what about the actual bag itself? What stories can 100% Ethiopian leather and beautifully woven patterns say about a single person or an entire community? Inspired by their travels and Ethiopian roots, the father-daughter duo, Dagne Tedla and Xiomara Rosa-Tedla, are telling their story one stitch at a time with UnoEth.