We were run out of the first bar.
Ethiopians, my fixer and translator Birhanu told me, don’t like being photographed. During the famine of the ‘80s, he explained, international reporters descended on Ethiopia and took photos and video — “took” being the operative word here — that Ethiopians felt didn’t depict their country or people in a positive way. Since then, there has been a general wariness about being in front of the lens.
Ascending a cobblestone street in the city’s ancient, frenetic Piassa district, we ducked into an unmarked door on a cobalt-colored building and emerged into several linked, dark, smoky, cacophonous rooms, the walls painted green, the perimeter lined with low benches that were absolutely packed with dudes. At knee level, along a low table, were small, beaker-shaped glasses of orange liquid — the eponymousinto our beakers.
Two beakers in, feeling the buzz and succumbing to a very strong desire to record the scene, I pulled out my camera. Almost immediately, men were shaking their heads disapprovingly and asking Birhanu if we had been given permission to photograph in the. At the same time, some of the more drunk men asked me to take their photos. I crossed the room to do this, and those in the periphery of the photos ran to Birhanu to angrily request compensation.
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