![]() ![]() ![]() From painted, marked, and scarified tribesmen to tradesmen with their tools and farmers with their animals, this collection is a priceless record of a unique and increasingly fragile way of life, one threatened by conflict, tourism, and the rapidly encroaching twenty-first century. This book is a beguiling portrait of its people, seen through an unusual lens-that of a simple window frame. Far from any city and with an unforgiving climate, it is nonetheless a place where traditional lifestyles meet the contemporary world. The village of Kibish lies in the lower Omo Valley on the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sudan. These are from a book by photographer, Hans Silvester: Natural Fashion, Tribal. Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa. The nomadic people who inhabit the valley share a gift for body painting and elaborate adornments borrowed from nature, and Hans Silvester has. My window has captured a moment in time, nothing more, nothing less, and in its endless stream of faces we can see the diversity of humankind, its customs and its religions, in a place that the old world now has to share with the new, with strangers who are here to stay.” -Hans Silvester Title: Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa. “ My little red window has become almost a mirror image of the startling changes taking place today in Africa, where so many conflicts have arisen from the coming together of different peoples, creating a chaotic jumble of humanity that obliges vastly different cultures and languages to bond together to form some kind of community. ![]()
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