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  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications04.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications03.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications06.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications08.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications09.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications10.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications13.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications15.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications14.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications16.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications17.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications18.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications20.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications19.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications21.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications23.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications25.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications30.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications31.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications01.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications02.jpg
  • Oct. 21, 2015 - Homestead, United States of America - <br />
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Burmese Python battles an American alligator<br />
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A Burmese pythons battles an American alligator in the Everglades National Park  Homestead, Florida. The python is an invasive species introduced by accident and now competing directly with the top predators in the Everglades ecosystem. <br />
©Exclusivepix Media
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  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications05.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications07.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications11.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications12.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications22.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications24.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications27.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications26.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
    ExPix_Scary_Scarifications28.jpg
  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
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  • Scary Scarifications<br />
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Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
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  • Scary Scarifications<br />
<br />
Seeing a scarification ceremony in the Surma tribe from the Omo valley in Ethiopia is a tough time. Not for the girl who is going to be scarified but for the foreigner who needs to see blood running, flies going into the wounds, under a hard sun. The girl, who was 12, did NOT say any word during the ten minutes ceremony, and did NOT show any pain. Her mother used a spine to pull the skin and a razor blade to cut the skin. <br />
At the end, i asked her if it was not too hard to have her skin cut with a razor blade, and she answered that she was close to collapse! It was incredible as she did not show any sign of pain on her face. It would be a shame for the family she confessed. A girl's eagerness to tolerate pain is also an indication of her emotional maturity and willingness to bear children.<br />
The kid chooses to do it, nobody obliged her. Scarifications are a beauty sign in the tribes. This is the tradition in Surma tribe.<br />
But for years now, the kids who go to school or who convert to christian, are told not to do it anymore. The men say the lack of scars on the skins make them looking ugly.<br />
The skin of the tribes in this area has a special reaction to cutting: the cicatrisation creates raising scars. Ash and certain organic saps might be added to a wound to make the scarring more prominent and or embellished.<br />
Not far from the Surma area, the Bodi women also make scars, some even have coil scarifications on the shoulders. It is very painful as they use some metal to do this, like when they do it to their cows to mark them on the fur and the skin! Pain seems unknown in the area.<br />
I met Ana who lives in the small village of Hana Mursi. She now hides her scarifications she had at 12, as she has gone to Arba Minch town to study at the Police school. People wearing scarifications are seen as « primitives » by many urban ethiopians and they suffer from this. She is proud to introduce me to her best friend, a bodi teenager who has made a heart on her a
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  • Oct. 21, 2015 - Homestead, United States of America - <br />
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Burmese Python battles an American alligator<br />
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A Burmese pythons battles an American alligator in the Everglades National Park  Homestead, Florida. The python is an invasive species introduced by accident and now competing directly with the top predators in the Everglades ecosystem. <br />
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  • Bollywood actress Aarthi Agarwal, 31, dies in her native New Jersey after 'failed liposuction surgery' <br />
<br />
A New Jersey-born Bollywood actress has died at the age of 31 after reported liposuction surgery went wrong.<br />
Aarthi Agarwal, 31, died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Atlantic City after respiratory problems, according to her manager.<br />
The death on Friday is thought to come roughly a month after the actress received liposuction surgery in the United States.<br />
<br />
She made her debut in Bollywood at age 16, but shot to fame with her performance in 2001's Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, according to the International Business Times.<br />
Despite being born in America, she soon became a rising star in Indian cinema. <br />
The actress was particularly popular in the 'Tollywood' Telugu language film industry, but also starred in Tamil and Hindi films.<br />
In 2005 she acted in a career-high five films, according to the Indian Express. However, she also reportedly tried to commit suicide that year after a relationship with a co-star soured and a lack of new movie offers.<br />
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  • Bollywood actress Aarthi Agarwal, 31, dies in her native New Jersey after 'failed liposuction surgery' <br />
<br />
A New Jersey-born Bollywood actress has died at the age of 31 after reported liposuction surgery went wrong.<br />
Aarthi Agarwal, 31, died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Atlantic City after respiratory problems, according to her manager.<br />
The death on Friday is thought to come roughly a month after the actress received liposuction surgery in the United States.<br />
<br />
She made her debut in Bollywood at age 16, but shot to fame with her performance in 2001's Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, according to the International Business Times.<br />
Despite being born in America, she soon became a rising star in Indian cinema. <br />
The actress was particularly popular in the 'Tollywood' Telugu language film industry, but also starred in Tamil and Hindi films.<br />
In 2005 she acted in a career-high five films, according to the Indian Express. However, she also reportedly tried to commit suicide that year after a relationship with a co-star soured and a lack of new movie offers.<br />
©Exclusivepix media
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  • Bollywood actress Aarthi Agarwal, 31, dies in her native New Jersey after 'failed liposuction surgery' <br />
<br />
A New Jersey-born Bollywood actress has died at the age of 31 after reported liposuction surgery went wrong.<br />
Aarthi Agarwal, 31, died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Atlantic City after respiratory problems, according to her manager.<br />
The death on Friday is thought to come roughly a month after the actress received liposuction surgery in the United States.<br />
<br />
She made her debut in Bollywood at age 16, but shot to fame with her performance in 2001's Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, according to the International Business Times.<br />
Despite being born in America, she soon became a rising star in Indian cinema. <br />
The actress was particularly popular in the 'Tollywood' Telugu language film industry, but also starred in Tamil and Hindi films.<br />
In 2005 she acted in a career-high five films, according to the Indian Express. However, she also reportedly tried to commit suicide that year after a relationship with a co-star soured and a lack of new movie offers.<br />
©Exclusivepix media
    Exclusivepix_Bollywood_actress_Dies_...jpg
  • Bollywood actress Aarthi Agarwal, 31, dies in her native New Jersey after 'failed liposuction surgery' <br />
<br />
A New Jersey-born Bollywood actress has died at the age of 31 after reported liposuction surgery went wrong.<br />
Aarthi Agarwal, 31, died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Atlantic City after respiratory problems, according to her manager.<br />
The death on Friday is thought to come roughly a month after the actress received liposuction surgery in the United States.<br />
<br />
She made her debut in Bollywood at age 16, but shot to fame with her performance in 2001's Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, according to the International Business Times.<br />
Despite being born in America, she soon became a rising star in Indian cinema. <br />
The actress was particularly popular in the 'Tollywood' Telugu language film industry, but also starred in Tamil and Hindi films.<br />
In 2005 she acted in a career-high five films, according to the Indian Express. However, she also reportedly tried to commit suicide that year after a relationship with a co-star soured and a lack of new movie offers.<br />
©Exclusivepix media
    Exclusivepix_Bollywood_actress_Dies_...jpg
  • Bollywood actress Aarthi Agarwal, 31, dies in her native New Jersey after 'failed liposuction surgery' <br />
<br />
A New Jersey-born Bollywood actress has died at the age of 31 after reported liposuction surgery went wrong.<br />
Aarthi Agarwal, 31, died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Atlantic City after respiratory problems, according to her manager.<br />
The death on Friday is thought to come roughly a month after the actress received liposuction surgery in the United States.<br />
<br />
She made her debut in Bollywood at age 16, but shot to fame with her performance in 2001's Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, according to the International Business Times.<br />
Despite being born in America, she soon became a rising star in Indian cinema. <br />
The actress was particularly popular in the 'Tollywood' Telugu language film industry, but also starred in Tamil and Hindi films.<br />
In 2005 she acted in a career-high five films, according to the Indian Express. However, she also reportedly tried to commit suicide that year after a relationship with a co-star soured and a lack of new movie offers.<br />
©Exclusivepix media
    Exclusivepix_Bollywood_actress_Dies_...jpg
  • Bollywood actress Aarthi Agarwal, 31, dies in her native New Jersey after 'failed liposuction surgery' <br />
<br />
A New Jersey-born Bollywood actress has died at the age of 31 after reported liposuction surgery went wrong.<br />
Aarthi Agarwal, 31, died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Atlantic City after respiratory problems, according to her manager.<br />
The death on Friday is thought to come roughly a month after the actress received liposuction surgery in the United States.<br />
<br />
She made her debut in Bollywood at age 16, but shot to fame with her performance in 2001's Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, according to the International Business Times.<br />
Despite being born in America, she soon became a rising star in Indian cinema. <br />
The actress was particularly popular in the 'Tollywood' Telugu language film industry, but also starred in Tamil and Hindi films.<br />
In 2005 she acted in a career-high five films, according to the Indian Express. However, she also reportedly tried to commit suicide that year after a relationship with a co-star soured and a lack of new movie offers.<br />
©Exclusivepix media
    Exclusivepix_Bollywood_actress_Dies_...jpg
  • Bollywood actress Aarthi Agarwal, 31, dies in her native New Jersey after 'failed liposuction surgery' <br />
<br />
A New Jersey-born Bollywood actress has died at the age of 31 after reported liposuction surgery went wrong.<br />
Aarthi Agarwal, 31, died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Atlantic City after respiratory problems, according to her manager.<br />
The death on Friday is thought to come roughly a month after the actress received liposuction surgery in the United States.<br />
<br />
She made her debut in Bollywood at age 16, but shot to fame with her performance in 2001's Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, according to the International Business Times.<br />
Despite being born in America, she soon became a rising star in Indian cinema. <br />
The actress was particularly popular in the 'Tollywood' Telugu language film industry, but also starred in Tamil and Hindi films.<br />
In 2005 she acted in a career-high five films, according to the Indian Express. However, she also reportedly tried to commit suicide that year after a relationship with a co-star soured and a lack of new movie offers.<br />
©Exclusivepix media
    Exclusivepix_Bollywood_actress_Dies_...jpg
  • PAEKTU, LAND OF NORTH KOREAN LEGENDS<br />
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Mount Paektu volcano is considered a holy place for North Koreans. It is deemed the place of origin for them. The country's founding father Kim Il- Sung commanded anti-Japanese guerrilla in the 50’s from a secret camp in this place.<br />
North Korea says his son Kim Jong-il was born there in 1942. He was actually born in Siberia, where his father had taken refuge from Japanese troops.<br />
The dear Leaders are said to have a "mount Paektu bloodline ». A famous slogan says: « Let us all turn out in the general offensive to hasten final victory in the revolutionary spirit of Paektu! »<br />
A new probelm may erupt: when North Korea tests a nuclear weapon, specialists say the energy could trigger a volcanic...eruption in Paektu. That could be a huge disaster, killing thousands in North Korea and on the chinese side too.<br />
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Photo shows:  The native house must be always cleared of the snow, so all day long, some cute volunteers work around.<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
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  • PAEKTU, LAND OF NORTH KOREAN LEGENDS<br />
<br />
Mount Paektu volcano is considered a holy place for North Koreans. It is deemed the place of origin for them. The country's founding father Kim Il- Sung commanded anti-Japanese guerrilla in the 50’s from a secret camp in this place.<br />
North Korea says his son Kim Jong-il was born there in 1942. He was actually born in Siberia, where his father had taken refuge from Japanese troops.<br />
The dear Leaders are said to have a "mount Paektu bloodline ». A famous slogan says: « Let us all turn out in the general offensive to hasten final victory in the revolutionary spirit of Paektu! »<br />
A new probelm may erupt: when North Korea tests a nuclear weapon, specialists say the energy could trigger a volcanic...eruption in Paektu. That could be a huge disaster, killing thousands in North Korea and on the chinese side too.<br />
<br />
Photo shows:  During the big celebrations like in Pyongyang for Arirang show, the native house is loudly applauded by the crowd in the stadium. Very few north koreans visited the area, but from the kindergarden, all north korean know this house.<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
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  • PAEKTU, LAND OF NORTH KOREAN LEGENDS<br />
<br />
Mount Paektu volcano is considered a holy place for North Koreans. It is deemed the place of origin for them. The country's founding father Kim Il- Sung commanded anti-Japanese guerrilla in the 50’s from a secret camp in this place.<br />
North Korea says his son Kim Jong-il was born there in 1942. He was actually born in Siberia, where his father had taken refuge from Japanese troops.<br />
The dear Leaders are said to have a "mount Paektu bloodline ». A famous slogan says: « Let us all turn out in the general offensive to hasten final victory in the revolutionary spirit of Paektu! »<br />
A new probelm may erupt: when North Korea tests a nuclear weapon, specialists say the energy could trigger a volcanic...eruption in Paektu. That could be a huge disaster, killing thousands in North Korea and on the chinese side too.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Kim Jong Il Native Home. It is a wooden house in the forest where Kim Jong Il is supposed to be born on<br />
February 16, 1942. Inside, you can see the toys and blankets used by baby Kim. In fact Kim Jong-il was born<br />
in Siberia, Russia during his father's period of exile from Korea in 1941..<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
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  • Stunning portraits from American Civil War  bright back to life in colour<br />
<br />
Major General George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876)<br />
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Major General George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.<br />
<br />
On June 25, 1876, while leading the 7th at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana against a coalition of Native American tribes, he and all of his battalion, which included two of his brothers, were killed. The battle is popularly known in American history as "Custer's Last Stand." Custer and his regiment were defeated so decisively at the Little Bighorn that it has overshadowed all of his prior achievements.<br />
©Frédéric DurIiez/Exclusivepix Media
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  • Stunning portraits from American Civil War  bright back to life in colour<br />
<br />
Major General George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876)<br />
<br />
Major General George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.<br />
<br />
On June 25, 1876, while leading the 7th at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana against a coalition of Native American tribes, he and all of his battalion, which included two of his brothers, were killed. The battle is popularly known in American history as "Custer's Last Stand." Custer and his regiment were defeated so decisively at the Little Bighorn that it has overshadowed all of his prior achievements.<br />
©Frédéric DurIiez/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Stunning_portraits_American_Ci...jpg
  • Storm Chaser: Amazing photos that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature<br />
<br />
Storm chaser Mike Olbinski captures lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in stunning images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature.<br />
<br />
Photographer Mike Olbinski chases storms throughout his native Arizona and further afield, capturing lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature. A new book, Storm Chaser, gathers 100 of his most breathtaking images. He says he had always been interested in storms and would travel thousands of miles every year, chasing the big supercells and tornadoes that appear on the central plains of the United States each spring. "But in 2011 my life changed," he says, "On 5 July I received a text with a photo of a dust storm rolling into the Phoenix area from the southeast. The day before I had just started practising time lapse photography and when I heard about a dust storm heading my way, I grabbed my gear and headed to a parking garage down the street. I thought that a time-lapse of a dust storm over the city would really give people an idea of how large these things can be.<br />
<br />
"As I pulled up to the top of the parking garage, my jaw dropped. The sky before me was unlike anything I'd ever seen. A massive wall of dust was headed my way. Not the normal dust storms you tend to see out here. No, this was like the end of the world. The wall was dense, thick and as tall as the clouds. It looked like a scene from the movie Independence Day. The National Weather Service would later say it was over 100 miles wide and a mile high."  The most amazing moment though for me was the day when I received a phone call from Al Gore's office, asking if they could use the footage in their climate change presentations. I was absolutely blown away.<br />
mikes book is out now "Storm Chaser by Mike Olbinksi", published by Pen & Sword Books.<br />
<br />
Photo shows:A monster shelf cloud moves towards the small com
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  • Storm Chaser: Amazing photos that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature<br />
<br />
Storm chaser Mike Olbinski captures lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in stunning images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature.<br />
<br />
Photographer Mike Olbinski chases storms throughout his native Arizona and further afield, capturing lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature. A new book, Storm Chaser, gathers 100 of his most breathtaking images. He says he had always been interested in storms and would travel thousands of miles every year, chasing the big supercells and tornadoes that appear on the central plains of the United States each spring. "But in 2011 my life changed," he says, "On 5 July I received a text with a photo of a dust storm rolling into the Phoenix area from the southeast. The day before I had just started practising time lapse photography and when I heard about a dust storm heading my way, I grabbed my gear and headed to a parking garage down the street. I thought that a time-lapse of a dust storm over the city would really give people an idea of how large these things can be.<br />
<br />
"As I pulled up to the top of the parking garage, my jaw dropped. The sky before me was unlike anything I'd ever seen. A massive wall of dust was headed my way. Not the normal dust storms you tend to see out here. No, this was like the end of the world. The wall was dense, thick and as tall as the clouds. It looked like a scene from the movie Independence Day. The National Weather Service would later say it was over 100 miles wide and a mile high."  The most amazing moment though for me was the day when I received a phone call from Al Gore's office, asking if they could use the footage in their climate change presentations. I was absolutely blown away.<br />
mikes book is out now "Storm Chaser by Mike Olbinksi", published by Pen & Sword Books.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: A beautiful shelf cloud forms west of Turkey, Te
    ExPix_Amazing_photos_awesome_power_a...jpg
  • Storm Chaser: Amazing photos that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature<br />
<br />
Storm chaser Mike Olbinski captures lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in stunning images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature.<br />
<br />
Photographer Mike Olbinski chases storms throughout his native Arizona and further afield, capturing lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature. A new book, Storm Chaser, gathers 100 of his most breathtaking images. He says he had always been interested in storms and would travel thousands of miles every year, chasing the big supercells and tornadoes that appear on the central plains of the United States each spring. "But in 2011 my life changed," he says, "On 5 July I received a text with a photo of a dust storm rolling into the Phoenix area from the southeast. The day before I had just started practising time lapse photography and when I heard about a dust storm heading my way, I grabbed my gear and headed to a parking garage down the street. I thought that a time-lapse of a dust storm over the city would really give people an idea of how large these things can be.<br />
<br />
"As I pulled up to the top of the parking garage, my jaw dropped. The sky before me was unlike anything I'd ever seen. A massive wall of dust was headed my way. Not the normal dust storms you tend to see out here. No, this was like the end of the world. The wall was dense, thick and as tall as the clouds. It looked like a scene from the movie Independence Day. The National Weather Service would later say it was over 100 miles wide and a mile high."  The most amazing moment though for me was the day when I received a phone call from Al Gore's office, asking if they could use the footage in their climate change presentations. I was absolutely blown away.<br />
mikes book is out now "Storm Chaser by Mike Olbinksi", published by Pen & Sword Books.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: A creep, electrical hand seems to rise out of th
    ExPix_Amazing_photos_awesome_power_a...jpg
  • Storm Chaser: Amazing photos that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature<br />
<br />
Storm chaser Mike Olbinski captures lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in stunning images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature.<br />
<br />
Photographer Mike Olbinski chases storms throughout his native Arizona and further afield, capturing lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature. A new book, Storm Chaser, gathers 100 of his most breathtaking images. He says he had always been interested in storms and would travel thousands of miles every year, chasing the big supercells and tornadoes that appear on the central plains of the United States each spring. "But in 2011 my life changed," he says, "On 5 July I received a text with a photo of a dust storm rolling into the Phoenix area from the southeast. The day before I had just started practising time lapse photography and when I heard about a dust storm heading my way, I grabbed my gear and headed to a parking garage down the street. I thought that a time-lapse of a dust storm over the city would really give people an idea of how large these things can be.<br />
<br />
"As I pulled up to the top of the parking garage, my jaw dropped. The sky before me was unlike anything I'd ever seen. A massive wall of dust was headed my way. Not the normal dust storms you tend to see out here. No, this was like the end of the world. The wall was dense, thick and as tall as the clouds. It looked like a scene from the movie Independence Day. The National Weather Service would later say it was over 100 miles wide and a mile high."  The most amazing moment though for me was the day when I received a phone call from Al Gore's office, asking if they could use the footage in their climate change presentations. I was absolutely blown away.<br />
mikes book is out now "Storm Chaser by Mike Olbinksi", published by Pen & Sword Books.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: A sheet of rain falls from a fast moving storm s
    ExPix_Amazing_photos_awesome_power_a...jpg
  • Storm Chaser: Amazing photos that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature<br />
<br />
Storm chaser Mike Olbinski captures lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in stunning images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature.<br />
<br />
Photographer Mike Olbinski chases storms throughout his native Arizona and further afield, capturing lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature. A new book, Storm Chaser, gathers 100 of his most breathtaking images. He says he had always been interested in storms and would travel thousands of miles every year, chasing the big supercells and tornadoes that appear on the central plains of the United States each spring. "But in 2011 my life changed," he says, "On 5 July I received a text with a photo of a dust storm rolling into the Phoenix area from the southeast. The day before I had just started practising time lapse photography and when I heard about a dust storm heading my way, I grabbed my gear and headed to a parking garage down the street. I thought that a time-lapse of a dust storm over the city would really give people an idea of how large these things can be.<br />
<br />
"As I pulled up to the top of the parking garage, my jaw dropped. The sky before me was unlike anything I'd ever seen. A massive wall of dust was headed my way. Not the normal dust storms you tend to see out here. No, this was like the end of the world. The wall was dense, thick and as tall as the clouds. It looked like a scene from the movie Independence Day. The National Weather Service would later say it was over 100 miles wide and a mile high."  The most amazing moment though for me was the day when I received a phone call from Al Gore's office, asking if they could use the footage in their climate change presentations. I was absolutely blown away.<br />
mikes book is out now "Storm Chaser by Mike Olbinksi", published by Pen & Sword Books.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: A strong EF4 tornado spins across the fields nea
    ExPix_Amazing_photos_awesome_power_a...jpg
  • Storm Chaser: Amazing photos that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature<br />
<br />
Storm chaser Mike Olbinski captures lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in stunning images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature.<br />
<br />
Photographer Mike Olbinski chases storms throughout his native Arizona and further afield, capturing lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature. A new book, Storm Chaser, gathers 100 of his most breathtaking images. He says he had always been interested in storms and would travel thousands of miles every year, chasing the big supercells and tornadoes that appear on the central plains of the United States each spring. "But in 2011 my life changed," he says, "On 5 July I received a text with a photo of a dust storm rolling into the Phoenix area from the southeast. The day before I had just started practising time lapse photography and when I heard about a dust storm heading my way, I grabbed my gear and headed to a parking garage down the street. I thought that a time-lapse of a dust storm over the city would really give people an idea of how large these things can be.<br />
<br />
"As I pulled up to the top of the parking garage, my jaw dropped. The sky before me was unlike anything I'd ever seen. A massive wall of dust was headed my way. Not the normal dust storms you tend to see out here. No, this was like the end of the world. The wall was dense, thick and as tall as the clouds. It looked like a scene from the movie Independence Day. The National Weather Service would later say it was over 100 miles wide and a mile high."  The most amazing moment though for me was the day when I received a phone call from Al Gore's office, asking if they could use the footage in their climate change presentations. I was absolutely blown away.<br />
mikes book is out now "Storm Chaser by Mike Olbinksi", published by Pen & Sword Books.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: A beautiful, isolated thunderstorm at sunset wes
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  • What can you do on sunday when you live in a dictatorship? You can hardly fly outside of the for a week end, or take your car to the beach...<br />
So this is the time to enjoy simple activities for the north koreans and the best opportunity for foreigners to meet them as everyone is more relax, including your minders!<br />
<br />
Photo shows:   A visit in the Kim Il Sung Native House in Pyongyang on sunday. I asked people how many times they came here, some told me it was their 7th visit. Usually the visits are orgnanised by schools or the Party.<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
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  • What can you do on sunday when you live in a dictatorship? You can hardly fly outside of the for a week end, or take your car to the beach...<br />
So this is the time to enjoy simple activities for the north koreans and the best opportunity for foreigners to meet them as everyone is more relax, including your minders!<br />
<br />
Photo shows:   A visit in the Kim Il Sung Native House in Pyongyang on sunday. I asked people how many times they came here, some told me it was their 7th visit. Usually the visits are orgnanised by schools or the Party.<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
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  • Washington, D.C, U.S - <br />
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'Unaccompanied’ - Children On The Border<br />
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A new surge of unaccompanied children from Central American countries is expected at the U.S. southern border, as officials ask Congress for more money to handle them. Customs and Border Protection estimated 75,000 children may arrive at the ports of entry before the end of the current fiscal year. Already, the number of minors arriving at the border is growing, with 20,000 apprehended at the border in the first five months of the federal fiscal year - double the number from a year earlier. <br />
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'Unaccompanied' is a visual story of youth immigrants who were among the thousands of children seeking refuge from the violence of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Following Obama's statement announcing a humanitarian crisis on the border in summer 2014, these youth captured the national spotlight. Countless articles related sensationalized stories of tragic and violent journeys. Noticeably absent from the discourse were the voices and stories of the youth themselves. What circumstances drove the children to seek refuge on US soil? What challenges do they face adapting to a new life in a foreign land? ’Unaccompanied' provides these youth a platform to directly share their personal stories with the public, free from the bias of a political agenda, and elevate their individual and collective challenges. Unaccompanied child immigrants represent an entanglement of issues in both the countries they hail from and to. This project seeks to demonstrate the realities that youth immigrants face: the doubts, aspirations, complexity and humanity of their experience.<br />
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My older brother always dreamed of coming here. As one of nine siblings, it wasn't ADELSO'S dream to make the journey from his native El Salvador to the United States,  it was his responsibility. Two weeks after he arrived on US soil, Adelso, 24, got a job in a restaurant. He now works in construction and lives with relatives, but his siblings and pare
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  • Washington, D.C, U.S - <br />
<br />
'Unaccompanied’ - Children On The Border<br />
<br />
A new surge of unaccompanied children from Central American countries is expected at the U.S. southern border, as officials ask Congress for more money to handle them. Customs and Border Protection estimated 75,000 children may arrive at the ports of entry before the end of the current fiscal year. Already, the number of minors arriving at the border is growing, with 20,000 apprehended at the border in the first five months of the federal fiscal year - double the number from a year earlier. <br />
<br />
'Unaccompanied' is a visual story of youth immigrants who were among the thousands of children seeking refuge from the violence of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Following Obama's statement announcing a humanitarian crisis on the border in summer 2014, these youth captured the national spotlight. Countless articles related sensationalized stories of tragic and violent journeys. Noticeably absent from the discourse were the voices and stories of the youth themselves. What circumstances drove the children to seek refuge on US soil? What challenges do they face adapting to a new life in a foreign land? ’Unaccompanied' provides these youth a platform to directly share their personal stories with the public, free from the bias of a political agenda, and elevate their individual and collective challenges. Unaccompanied child immigrants represent an entanglement of issues in both the countries they hail from and to. This project seeks to demonstrate the realities that youth immigrants face: the doubts, aspirations, complexity and humanity of their experience.<br />
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 ring, is the only thing GISSELL keeps as a memory for her trip. At age 13, Gissell wants the chance to prove her worth in society. 'I think it's really important to tell our story,' she says. Gissell's father left for the United States from her native El Salvador when she was three years old. She spoke to him every day, but dreamed of the day when the
    Exclusivepix_Children_On_The_Border0...jpg
  • Washington, D.C, U.S - <br />
<br />
'Unaccompanied’ - Children On The Border<br />
<br />
A new surge of unaccompanied children from Central American countries is expected at the U.S. southern border, as officials ask Congress for more money to handle them. Customs and Border Protection estimated 75,000 children may arrive at the ports of entry before the end of the current fiscal year. Already, the number of minors arriving at the border is growing, with 20,000 apprehended at the border in the first five months of the federal fiscal year - double the number from a year earlier. <br />
<br />
'Unaccompanied' is a visual story of youth immigrants who were among the thousands of children seeking refuge from the violence of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Following Obama's statement announcing a humanitarian crisis on the border in summer 2014, these youth captured the national spotlight. Countless articles related sensationalized stories of tragic and violent journeys. Noticeably absent from the discourse were the voices and stories of the youth themselves. What circumstances drove the children to seek refuge on US soil? What challenges do they face adapting to a new life in a foreign land? ’Unaccompanied' provides these youth a platform to directly share their personal stories with the public, free from the bias of a political agenda, and elevate their individual and collective challenges. Unaccompanied child immigrants represent an entanglement of issues in both the countries they hail from and to. This project seeks to demonstrate the realities that youth immigrants face: the doubts, aspirations, complexity and humanity of their experience.<br />
<br />
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At age 13, GISSELL wants the chance to prove her worth in society. 'I think it's really important to tell our story,' she says. Gissell's father left for the United States from her native El Salvador when she was three years old. She spoke to him every day, but dreamed of the day when they would meet again. When she was 12, she came to the States to re
    Exclusivepix_Children_On_The_Border0...jpg
  • New Delhi, India - <br />
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Garbage Mountain<br />
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Just a few miles from the famous Akshardham temple, where tourists flock to see the structure's sandstone and marble work, the 29-hectare, slum-surrounded Ghazipur landfill in east Delhi seems a world apart. Each day hundreds of mainly migrant workers earn a meager living at the landfill by collecting recyclable material like plastic, metal and even hair to sell. The dump is the last port of call for Delhi's trash, having already been picked through by other waste collectors who collect bags of garbage directly from homes. Delhi is home to three landfills where around 6,000 tons of trash is dumped daily. Studies have shown that living near a landfill increases the risk of cancer, birth defects and asthma.<br />
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Photo shows: QASIM ALI, a native of West Bengal, has been working at Ghazipur landfill for the past twelve years. He came to the capital with the hopes of finding a job. Unable to find employment, and perhaps unable to speak the local language, he eventually turned to ragpicking, gathering trash at the dump to sell as recyclables.<br />
©Chinky Shukla/Exclusivepix Media
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  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
    Exclusivepix_Daredevils_Balancing_Fe...jpg
  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
    Exclusivepix_Daredevils_Balancing_Fe...jpg
  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
    Exclusivepix_Daredevils_Balancing_Fe...jpg
  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
    Exclusivepix_Daredevils_Balancing_Fe...jpg
  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
    Exclusivepix_Daredevils_Balancing_Fe...jpg
  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
    Exclusivepix_Daredevils_Balancing_Fe...jpg
  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
    Exclusivepix_Daredevils_Balancing_Fe...jpg
  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
    Exclusivepix_Daredevils_Balancing_Fe...jpg
  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
    Exclusivepix_Daredevils_Balancing_Fe...jpg
  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
    Exclusivepix_Daredevils_Balancing_Fe...jpg
  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
    Exclusivepix_Daredevils_Balancing_Fe...jpg
  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
    Exclusivepix_Daredevils_Balancing_Fe...jpg
  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
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  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
    Exclusivepix_Daredevils_Balancing_Fe...jpg
  • Storm Chaser: Amazing photos that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature<br />
<br />
Storm chaser Mike Olbinski captures lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in stunning images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature.<br />
<br />
Photographer Mike Olbinski chases storms throughout his native Arizona and further afield, capturing lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature. A new book, Storm Chaser, gathers 100 of his most breathtaking images. He says he had always been interested in storms and would travel thousands of miles every year, chasing the big supercells and tornadoes that appear on the central plains of the United States each spring. "But in 2011 my life changed," he says, "On 5 July I received a text with a photo of a dust storm rolling into the Phoenix area from the southeast. The day before I had just started practising time lapse photography and when I heard about a dust storm heading my way, I grabbed my gear and headed to a parking garage down the street. I thought that a time-lapse of a dust storm over the city would really give people an idea of how large these things can be.<br />
<br />
"As I pulled up to the top of the parking garage, my jaw dropped. The sky before me was unlike anything I'd ever seen. A massive wall of dust was headed my way. Not the normal dust storms you tend to see out here. No, this was like the end of the world. The wall was dense, thick and as tall as the clouds. It looked like a scene from the movie Independence Day. The National Weather Service would later say it was over 100 miles wide and a mile high."  The most amazing moment though for me was the day when I received a phone call from Al Gore's office, asking if they could use the footage in their climate change presentations. I was absolutely blown away.<br />
mikes book is out now "Storm Chaser by Mike Olbinksi", published by Pen & Sword Books.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: An early morning lightning strike east of Saguar
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  • Storm Chaser: Amazing photos that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature<br />
<br />
Storm chaser Mike Olbinski captures lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in stunning images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature.<br />
<br />
Photographer Mike Olbinski chases storms throughout his native Arizona and further afield, capturing lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature. A new book, Storm Chaser, gathers 100 of his most breathtaking images. He says he had always been interested in storms and would travel thousands of miles every year, chasing the big supercells and tornadoes that appear on the central plains of the United States each spring. "But in 2011 my life changed," he says, "On 5 July I received a text with a photo of a dust storm rolling into the Phoenix area from the southeast. The day before I had just started practising time lapse photography and when I heard about a dust storm heading my way, I grabbed my gear and headed to a parking garage down the street. I thought that a time-lapse of a dust storm over the city would really give people an idea of how large these things can be.<br />
<br />
"As I pulled up to the top of the parking garage, my jaw dropped. The sky before me was unlike anything I'd ever seen. A massive wall of dust was headed my way. Not the normal dust storms you tend to see out here. No, this was like the end of the world. The wall was dense, thick and as tall as the clouds. It looked like a scene from the movie Independence Day. The National Weather Service would later say it was over 100 miles wide and a mile high."  The most amazing moment though for me was the day when I received a phone call from Al Gore's office, asking if they could use the footage in their climate change presentations. I was absolutely blown away.<br />
mikes book is out now "Storm Chaser by Mike Olbinksi", published by Pen & Sword Books.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: A tornado just east of Trinidad, Colorado, drops
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  • Storm Chaser: Amazing photos that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature<br />
<br />
Storm chaser Mike Olbinski captures lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in stunning images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature.<br />
<br />
Photographer Mike Olbinski chases storms throughout his native Arizona and further afield, capturing lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature. A new book, Storm Chaser, gathers 100 of his most breathtaking images. He says he had always been interested in storms and would travel thousands of miles every year, chasing the big supercells and tornadoes that appear on the central plains of the United States each spring. "But in 2011 my life changed," he says, "On 5 July I received a text with a photo of a dust storm rolling into the Phoenix area from the southeast. The day before I had just started practising time lapse photography and when I heard about a dust storm heading my way, I grabbed my gear and headed to a parking garage down the street. I thought that a time-lapse of a dust storm over the city would really give people an idea of how large these things can be.<br />
<br />
"As I pulled up to the top of the parking garage, my jaw dropped. The sky before me was unlike anything I'd ever seen. A massive wall of dust was headed my way. Not the normal dust storms you tend to see out here. No, this was like the end of the world. The wall was dense, thick and as tall as the clouds. It looked like a scene from the movie Independence Day. The National Weather Service would later say it was over 100 miles wide and a mile high."  The most amazing moment though for me was the day when I received a phone call from Al Gore's office, asking if they could use the footage in their climate change presentations. I was absolutely blown away.<br />
mikes book is out now "Storm Chaser by Mike Olbinksi", published by Pen & Sword Books.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: A single lightning bolt slams into the heart of
    ExPix_Amazing_photos_awesome_power_a...jpg
  • STOP ACID ATTACKS<br />
<br />
They got attacked with acid when they were so young. By people who tried to disfigure them, to destroy their identity, who thought that they could do anything to women and that they could lead them to darkness and silence. <br />
Today, here they are. They started campaigning in Delhi in 2013 to help and rehabilitate acid attacks survivors. The campaign is called “STOP ACID ATTACKS”. Their action spread out all over India. They go to meet survivors in their families and help them come out, intervene when the police do not take up a complaint and follow up on the medical treatment and the ensuing legal procedure. They also report the news cases to the authorities and the medias. The girls don’t want to hide. They design clothes, they opened a café-restaurant in Agra, they do painting, they want to smile, they have different life projects. They also interact with other minorities as rape victims, LGBT communities, old people abandoned by their families, sharing their strength and experience. They refuse to be called “victims” but prefer the term “fighters”.   <br />
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Photo shows: After her mother's death, Rupa was living with her stepmother in her native village in Uttar Pradesh. She didn’t want to take care of her anymore. One night, her stepmother poured acid on her while she was sleeping. Her stepmother tried her best to kill Rupa and left her without any first aid for 6 hours until her uncle reached and moved Rupa to a nearby hospital. When the facilities at the local hospital seemed inefficient in providing any relief to the girl, her uncle got Rupa to Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi, where she as admitted for the next 3 months. <br />
©Pascal Mannaerts/Exclusivepix Media
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  • This Daredevil’s Balancing Feats Above 3,000ft Drops Are a Potentially Fatal Form of Art<br />
<br />
Poised perilously on a tightrope approximately 3,280 feet up in the air above the majestic Lysefjord in southwestern Norway, Eskil Ronningsbakken must fight hard to manage his fear. There is no safety net beneath his wire and no harness holding him in place. This is not an insured stunt to play back on the silver screen. Ronningsbakken knows that one slight misstep will result in certain death, yet he puts that out of his mind and continues to place one foot in front of the other. Then again, Eskil Ronningsbakken is no ordinary Joe: for many years now the Norwegian daredevil has been stupefying and scaring in equal measure with his gravity- – and, some would argue, sanity- – defying “extreme art.”<br />
<br />
Indeed, Ronningsbakken’s incredible acrobatic art has often found him balancing off the edges of cliffs and above deadly drops, on props ranging from tightropes and ladders to bicycles and chairs. And these outrageous acts have in fact enabled the highly skilled performer and conceptual artist to traverse the globe and take his stage in over 100 nations.<br />
<br />
It’s perhaps reassuring to learn that Ronningsbakken is no novice with regard to this highly unusual – and exceptionally dangerous – craft. On the contrary, this individual has devoted much of his life to honing his ability to create audaciously high-up art. “I have known from an early age how I wanted to spend my life and never doubted my professional decisions,”<br />
<br />
Indeed, the mid-30s action maestro from Stange in Norway claims to have known what kind of life he wished to pursue even as a spirited five-year-old. Through to his teens, he explored his native country’s beautiful yet potentially hazardous backdrop, while the tranquil balancing of an Indian yogi on TV also motivated an impressionable young Ronningsbakken.<br />
<br />
Ronningsbakken became involved with a circus troupe at 18 years old, sharpened his skills un
    Exclusivepix_Daredevils_Balancing_Fe...jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
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  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
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  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare19.jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare18.jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare16.jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare17.jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare15.jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare12.jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare14.jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare13.jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare11.jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare07.jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare09.jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare10.jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare08.jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare05.jpg
  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
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  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
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Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
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Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
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East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
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  • Borneo Stripped Bare<br />
<br />
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, was once covered with dense rainforests, but along with its tropical lowland and highland forests, there has been extensive deforestation since the 1960s, as the native economies of the region experienced rapid industrialisation.<br />
<br />
Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory; the Indonesian name for the island, Kalimantan, is used in English to refer to the Indonesian-controlled territory.<br />
<br />
East and South Kalimantan is an Indonesian province in the east and south of the island of Borneo. It’s known for its indigenous Dayak culture and rainforest areas. East and South Kalimantan are home to vast swaths of tropical rain forest that are fast dwindling as a result of mining, logging and plantations. These activities have taken their toll on the environment as well as the indigenous communities that have for generations called the forest their home. <br />
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    ExPix_Borneo_Stripped_Bare02.jpg
  • SHOCKING IMAGES as Water buffalo slaughtered for harvest<br />
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These shocking images show a water buffalo as the animal is slaughtered in front of a crowd the  Mangalahat Horbo Bius or sacrificing water buffaloes with speared to death has been a long standing tradition among the native Batak people at Samosir island in North Sumatra, Indonesia. The animal is sacrificed to give thanks to the spirits and ask them for a fruitful harvest. After the ritual, the meat of the buffalo is distributed among the people.<br />
The Mangalahat Horbo Bius was forbidden by the colonial administration in agreement with the demands made by the missionaries.<br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
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  • SHOCKING IMAGES as Water buffalo slaughtered for harvest<br />
<br />
These shocking images show a water buffalo as the animal is slaughtered in front of a crowd the  Mangalahat Horbo Bius or sacrificing water buffaloes with speared to death has been a long standing tradition among the native Batak people at Samosir island in North Sumatra, Indonesia. The animal is sacrificed to give thanks to the spirits and ask them for a fruitful harvest. After the ritual, the meat of the buffalo is distributed among the people.<br />
The Mangalahat Horbo Bius was forbidden by the colonial administration in agreement with the demands made by the missionaries.<br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_SHOCKING_IMAGES_Water_buffalo_...jpg
  • SHOCKING IMAGES as Water buffalo slaughtered for harvest<br />
<br />
These shocking images show a water buffalo as the animal is slaughtered in front of a crowd the  Mangalahat Horbo Bius or sacrificing water buffaloes with speared to death has been a long standing tradition among the native Batak people at Samosir island in North Sumatra, Indonesia. The animal is sacrificed to give thanks to the spirits and ask them for a fruitful harvest. After the ritual, the meat of the buffalo is distributed among the people.<br />
The Mangalahat Horbo Bius was forbidden by the colonial administration in agreement with the demands made by the missionaries.<br />
©Afriadi Hikmal/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_SHOCKING_IMAGES_Water_buffalo_...jpg
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