Sohier, Estelle. “Hybrid Images: From Photography to Church Painting: Iconographic Narratives at the Court of the Ethiopian King of Kings, Menelik II (1880s–1913)”. African Arts 49, n^o 1(2016): 26‑39. https://doi.org/10.1162/AFAR_a_00268.

Photographs of Haile Selassie (r. 1939-1974) can be seen today on the streets of Addis Ababa and in books, museums, and photo agencies around the world; they have gained as well as new life on the internet, partly through Rastafarianism activism. While the reign of this King of Kings has been widely depicted in photographic images, particularly in countless portraits (Hirsch and Perret 1995, Perret 1995), Haile Selassie was not the first Ethiopian ruler to exploit photography.

[Source: Excerpt from the article, p. 26].