Ethiopia - 2017 Omo Valley

Expedition to the Southern Omo Valley in search of the different ethnic tribes that colours this region.
Mursi woman Trying to open a conversation with this Mursi lady - December 2017
Mursi woman
Dassanech Showing the result of their picture that I just had been taken - Dassanech - Omo valley - december 2017
Dassanech
Omo Valley The land is largely dry savanna, with the Omo River cutting a nearly 475-mile-long swath down to Lake Turkana on the Kenya border. Dassanech - Omo Valley -...
Omo Valley
Hamer Tribe With some of the Hamer residents - Omo Valley - december 2017
Hamer Tribe
Mursi I had the most rewarding time at this Mursi village - december 2017
Mursi
Ethiopians During our road trip through the Omo Valley, we found time to stop at local villages where we experienced friendliness from the residents - december 2017
Ethiopians
Ari Ari woman at the Key Afer market - Omo Valley - december 2017
Ari
Dassanech Young Dassanech girl - Omo Valley - december 2017
Dassanech
Hamer boy Young boy at the Hamer village - december 2017
Hamer boy
Hamer The Hamar (also spelled Hamer) are an Omotic community inhabiting southwestern Ethiopia. They live in Hamer woreda (or district), a fertile part of the Omo...
Hamer
Hamer The Hamar live in Hamer woreda (or district), a fertile part of the Omo River valley, in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples...
Hamer
Hamer girl The Hamar are known for their unique custom of
Hamer girl
Dassanech kids Omo Valley Ethiopia and the indigenous people and tribes - december 2017
Dassanech kids
Mursi Lady The Mursi, Chai and Tirma are probably the last groups in Africa amongst whom it is still the norm for women to wear large pottery or wooden discs or ‘plates’...
Mursi Lady
Dassanech I enjoyed very much frolicking with these lovely kids while taking pictures - december 2017
Dassanech
Hamer girl Hamer are one of the most known tribes in Southwestern Ethiopia. December 2017
Hamer girl
Hamer Neatly groomed Hamer man - december 2017
Mursi-8 A girl’s lower lip is cut, by her mother or by another woman of her settlement, when she reaches the age of 15 or 16. The cut is held open by a wooden plug...
Hamer This Hamer woman has some life marks on her face - december 2017
Hamer
Mursi woman The Mursi tribe are an African tribe from the isolated Omo valley in Southern Ethiopia near the border with Sudan. - December 2017
Mursi woman