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Some trips produce such a maelstrom of impressions and images that, when reviewing the photos, it makes sense to start at the end. So it was with Ethiopia! The first photo-stories I posted about this landlocked country, split by the Great Rift Valley, were from the last tribe I visited, the Mursi people, whose villages […]

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Life isn’t easy in the lower reaches of Ethiopia’s South Omo Zone. This is a harsh environment: an arid region with low annual rainfall, where indigenous groups have mastered flood-retreat agriculture on the banks of the Omo River. For generations, a number of distinct ethnic groups have managed to hold onto their languages and cultures, […]

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