Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes

Categories: Africa | Children | Nations | Photo project |

Spanish photographer Diego Arroyo Mendez made a series of amazing images of rural life in Ethiopia, where people for centuries — if not millennia! — took care of their traditions and rituals.

In recent years, the traditional tribal life in the OMO valley was subjected to the test of modernity. Diego has filmed the way of life of these tribes during times of change.

Most of all, the photographer was impressed by the rite of initiation Hamar that he had to watch. The boy during the ritual jumping over bulls, and his relatives brutally beat while they sing and whistle horns made from the bull's horns.

Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes
Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes

Girl in a traditional shawl.

Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes

The old man with the traditional decoration.

Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes

The girl in the shoes and beads.

Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes

Girl in beads.

Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes

Boy — also with decoration.

Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes

Pensive woman.

Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes

A boy plays with sticks.

Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes

A woman, adorned with the traditional white paint.

Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes

The man with the firewood.

Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes

Pensive man.

Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes

Shepherd.

Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes

The boy in the paint.

Amazing photos of Ethiopian tribes

Keywords: Girls | Women | Boys | Men | Tribe | Traditions | Ornaments | Portraits | Ethiopia

     

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