YOU’VE MADE TWO SEPARATE EXPEDITIONS TO THE OMO VALLEY – OCTOBER 2022, THEN MAY 2024. MOST ARTISTS SPEND YEARS WORKING FROM REFERENCE AND NEVER LEAVE THEIR STUDIO. WHAT WAS THE CONVICTION THAT MADE ...
On July 14, I reported that elders of Ethiopia’s Kara tribe formally renounced the practice of Mingi, or child sacrifice. What motivates a tribe to overturn a belief system that has been in place for ...
The Nyangatom are some of the most feared warriors in the Omo Valley, locked in bloody feuds with the tribes that surround them. After the team left the Nyangatom village, Locho, one of the young men, ...
With fewer than two thousand members, the Karo are one of the smallest tribes living along the Omo. They support themselves with fishing and sorghum farming, and by trading with the Hamar and the ...
Ethiopia’s Omo Valley is one of the last African frontiers. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. It is so remote that you can get here ...
New York-based art director and photographer Diego Arroyo recently returned from a trip to Ethiopia to document the ancient tribes of the Omo Valley. During his time in Ethiopia, Arroyo spent time ...
See more of our coverage in your search results. The endangered Omo Valley people in Ethiopia were ready for their close-up — one photographer’s effort to capture the tribes before tourism and ...