Downstairs in Ethiopia

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  • Published 20140805
  • ISBN: 9781922182425
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

‘AND HOW DOES that feel – to be hungry?’

The girl, Abrinet, looks at me, smiles, then looks down. She plays at a gash on her foot and I see Mitch frame it up on ‘A’ camera. Travelling from her face down her body, he pulls focus, creating edit points. He is good like that, Mitch, his sense of small things.

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