Mursi People is a series of photos that were taken during my visit to Ethiopia and are part of the album "Ethiopian Tribes Expedition" 2018. The Mursi tribe are an African tribe from the isolated Omo valley in Southern Ethiopia near the border with Sudan. Life for the Mursi is...
Biljana Jurukovski: Painted Souls
Macedonian-Australian photographer Biljana Jurukovski has been fascinated by different cultures since childhood. For the past five years, she has focused her craft on taking moving portraits of different cultures around the world. In particular, her Painted Souls series hones in on the beauty of the Surma tribe. Living on the...
Tobin Jones: Demographica
The image of Kenya tends to be one of nomadic tribes dressed in red and adorned with beads, but the reality is much different. More than a quarter of Kenya’s population today live in cities and, while the country has forty two tribes, the majority of people belong to just...
Will Baxter: Burundi – Breaking Point
More than a year has passed since Burundi’s president Pierre Nkurunziza plunged the nation into crisis when he announced he would seek an unconstitutional third term. That move sparked deadly street protests and a failed coup attempt, and in the wake of these events the country’s security forces have been...
PhotoBiography: Nick Brandt
Nick Brandt (born 1964) is an English photographer who photographs exclusively in the African continent, one of his goals being to record a last testament to the wild animals and places there before they are destroyed by the hands of man. In 2001, Brandt embarked upon his ambitious photographic project:...
Patrick Tourneboeuf: TRACE – Kimberley
Kimberley, 1867. The discovery of a massive diamond causes the birth of a city situated in the desert of the Great Karoo, 1 230 meters above the sea level in the province of North Cape. Since then, many lives have succeeded. The settlers have been replaced by tourists. And we...
Tamina-Florentine Zuch: Zongo
In August 2012 the town of Hohoe witnessed violent riots between Christians and the Muslim minority. The residents of „Zongo“ (the so called Muslim area of every town in Ghana) and the Christians attacked each other, inflaming houses and shops. An unspecified number of people died. One year later Christians...
Antonio Aragon Renuncio: Sanna’m
And there it was, amid the absence as a savanna. Hidden among rough rocks, among weeds and trees scattered starving the hot plains. Under a blazing sun hammering the senses. No rest, no mercy. A million light years from known safety and comfort. In Africa, always in Africa. Always in...
Antonio Aragon Renuncio: Sorcière. The Witches. The Soul Eaters
Les Sorcières. The witches. The soul eaters. At Burkina Faso. In the middle of the deep savannah. Far from everything. Close to nowhere. Even today in the Mossi tribal culture many women are accused of being “witches” by their neighbors, simply because they assume that they are responsible for any...
Xavier Guardans: Windows
Windows is the debut volume of photographer Xavier Guardans (born 1954), produced in 2006 while exploring the Kenyan wilderness. These black-and-white portraits of individuals from a variety of Kenyan tribes--including Turkana, Samburu, Masai, Rendille, Gabra and Pokot--were shot through the window of Guardans' Toyota Land Cruiser. The background is empty...