| DASSANECH TRIBE Location: Ethiopia Photographed in 2011 The tribe is atypical in that it is not strictly defined by ethnicity. Anyone can be admitted.
GOROKA TRIBE Location: Indonesia + Papua New Guinea Photographed in 2011 Life is simple in the highland villages. The residents have plenty of good food, close-knit families and a great respect for the wonders of nature. They survive by hunting, gathering plants and growing crops. Indigenous warfare is common and men go through great effort to impress the enemy with make-up and ornaments. “Knowledge is only rumour until it is in the muscle”
ASARO TRIBE Location: Indonesia + Papua New Guinea Photographed in 2010 Their culture is being threatened and they’re being forced to stand up for themselves.
HIMBA TRIBE Location: Namibia Photographed in 2011 Each member belongs to two clans, through the father and the mother. Marriages are arranged with a view to spreading wealth. Looks are vital, it tells everything about one’s place within the group and phase of life. The headman, normally a grandfather, is responsible for the rules of the indigenous group.
CHINESE FISHING TRIBE Location: Guangxi, China Photographed in 2010
HUAORANI TRIBE Location: Argentina + Ecuador Photographed in 2011
KARO TRIBE Location: Ethiopia Photographed in 2011 The Omo Valley, situated in Africa’s Great Rift Valley, is home to an estimated 200,000 indigenous peoples who have lived there for millennia. The tribes here have always traded between each other, for beads, food, cattle and cloth. More recently, the trade has been in guns and bullets. Inevitably, as roads are made through the area, other goods like beer and food find their way into the villages.
HULI TRIBE Location: Indonesia + Papua New Guinea Photographed in 2010
KAZAKH TRIBE Location: Mongolia Photographed in 2011 The Kazakhs are the descendants of Turkic, Mongolic and Indo-Iranian indigenous groups and Huns that populated the territory between Siberia and the Black Sea. The ancient art of eagle hunting is one of many traditions and skills that the Kazakhs have been able to hold on to for the last decades. They rely on their clan and herds, believing in pre-Islamic cults of the sky, the ancestors, fire and the supernatural forces of good and evil spirits.
KOROWAI TRIBE Location: Indonesia + Papua New Guinea Photographed in 2010
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