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  • Hamer Tribe Woman With A Manchester United  Football Shirt, Turmi, Omo Valley, Ethiopia
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • The football stars of tomorrow<br />
<br />
Thousands of Football shirts of Arsenal, Manchester, Chelsea, Milano, etc end up their carreer in... Ethiopia. Sold in the deep south, in the Omo Valley, those second hand clothes are bought by the local tribes. Most of them ignore the meaning of those shirts, and just buy them for the color, the logo, or the shape.<br />
No warrior will go out without his little pillow/seat.<br />
Some, like in Hamer tribe wear at the top of the head a clay helmet where they can put some ostrich feathers when they make a special action, like killing a wild animal, or...a man.<br />
Those tribes won’t exist in few years as the ethiopian governement has launched a huge plan to develop the area.<br />
Soon, a highway coming from Mombassa - Nairobi will pass thru the villages to reach Addis Ababa.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Arsenal Supporter Young Boy Omo Valley Ethiopia<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: The fat men drink milk and blood all day long. The first  bowl  of blood  (1 to  2  liters)  is  drunk  at  sunrise. The place  is  invaded  by  flies. The  man must   drink   it   quickly   before   it <br />
coagulates. Some  can  not  drink  everything  and vomit it..<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN14.jpg
  • The football stars of tomorrow<br />
<br />
Thousands of Football shirts of Arsenal, Manchester, Chelsea, Milano, etc end up their carreer in... Ethiopia. Sold in the deep south, in the Omo Valley, those second hand clothes are bought by the local tribes. Most of them ignore the meaning of those shirts, and just buy them for the color, the logo, or the shape.<br />
No warrior will go out without his little pillow/seat.<br />
Some, like in Hamer tribe wear at the top of the head a clay helmet where they can put some ostrich feathers when they make a special action, like killing a wild animal, or...a man.<br />
Those tribes won’t exist in few years as the ethiopian governement has launched a huge plan to develop the area.<br />
Soon, a highway coming from Mombassa - Nairobi will pass thru the villages to reach Addis Ababa.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Bana tribe- Chelsea FC<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • The football stars of tomorrow<br />
<br />
Thousands of Football shirts of Arsenal, Manchester, Chelsea, Milano, etc end up their carreer in... Ethiopia. Sold in the deep south, in the Omo Valley, those second hand clothes are bought by the local tribes. Most of them ignore the meaning of those shirts, and just buy them for the color, the logo, or the shape.<br />
No warrior will go out without his little pillow/seat.<br />
Some, like in Hamer tribe wear at the top of the head a clay helmet where they can put some ostrich feathers when they make a special action, like killing a wild animal, or...a man.<br />
Those tribes won’t exist in few years as the ethiopian governement has launched a huge plan to develop the area.<br />
Soon, a highway coming from Mombassa - Nairobi will pass thru the villages to reach Addis Ababa.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Tsamay tribe- Manchester United<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • The football stars of tomorrow<br />
<br />
Thousands of Football shirts of Arsenal, Manchester, Chelsea, Milano, etc end up their carreer in... Ethiopia. Sold in the deep south, in the Omo Valley, those second hand clothes are bought by the local tribes. Most of them ignore the meaning of those shirts, and just buy them for the color, the logo, or the shape.<br />
No warrior will go out without his little pillow/seat.<br />
Some, like in Hamer tribe wear at the top of the head a clay helmet where they can put some ostrich feathers when they make a special action, like killing a wild animal, or...a man.<br />
Those tribes won’t exist in few years as the ethiopian governement has launched a huge plan to develop the area.<br />
Soon, a highway coming from Mombassa - Nairobi will pass thru the villages to reach Addis Ababa.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Bana tribe- Arsenal<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • The football stars of tomorrow<br />
<br />
Thousands of Football shirts of Arsenal, Manchester, Chelsea, Milano, etc end up their carreer in... Ethiopia. Sold in the deep south, in the Omo Valley, those second hand clothes are bought by the local tribes. Most of them ignore the meaning of those shirts, and just buy them for the color, the logo, or the shape.<br />
No warrior will go out without his little pillow/seat.<br />
Some, like in Hamer tribe wear at the top of the head a clay helmet where they can put some ostrich feathers when they make a special action, like killing a wild animal, or...a man.<br />
Those tribes won’t exist in few years as the ethiopian governement has launched a huge plan to develop the area.<br />
Soon, a highway coming from Mombassa - Nairobi will pass thru the villages to reach Addis Ababa.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Hamer tribe - Barcelona<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • The football stars of tomorrow<br />
<br />
Thousands of Football shirts of Arsenal, Manchester, Chelsea, Milano, etc end up their carreer in... Ethiopia. Sold in the deep south, in the Omo Valley, those second hand clothes are bought by the local tribes. Most of them ignore the meaning of those shirts, and just buy them for the color, the logo, or the shape.<br />
No warrior will go out without his little pillow/seat.<br />
Some, like in Hamer tribe wear at the top of the head a clay helmet where they can put some ostrich feathers when they make a special action, like killing a wild animal, or...a man.<br />
Those tribes won’t exist in few years as the ethiopian governement has launched a huge plan to develop the area.<br />
Soon, a highway coming from Mombassa - Nairobi will pass thru the villages to reach Addis Ababa.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Hamer tribe - Manchester United<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • The football stars of tomorrow<br />
<br />
Thousands of Football shirts of Arsenal, Manchester, Chelsea, Milano, etc end up their carreer in... Ethiopia. Sold in the deep south, in the Omo Valley, those second hand clothes are bought by the local tribes. Most of them ignore the meaning of those shirts, and just buy them for the color, the logo, or the shape.<br />
No warrior will go out without his little pillow/seat.<br />
Some, like in Hamer tribe wear at the top of the head a clay helmet where they can put some ostrich feathers when they make a special action, like killing a wild animal, or...a man.<br />
Those tribes won’t exist in few years as the ethiopian governement has launched a huge plan to develop the area.<br />
Soon, a highway coming from Mombassa - Nairobi will pass thru the villages to reach Addis Ababa.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Bana tribe - Arsenal<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • The football stars of tomorrow<br />
<br />
Thousands of Football shirts of Arsenal, Manchester, Chelsea, Milano, etc end up their carreer in... Ethiopia. Sold in the deep south, in the Omo Valley, those second hand clothes are bought by the local tribes. Most of them ignore the meaning of those shirts, and just buy them for the color, the logo, or the shape.<br />
No warrior will go out without his little pillow/seat.<br />
Some, like in Hamer tribe wear at the top of the head a clay helmet where they can put some ostrich feathers when they make a special action, like killing a wild animal, or...a man.<br />
Those tribes won’t exist in few years as the ethiopian governement has launched a huge plan to develop the area.<br />
Soon, a highway coming from Mombassa - Nairobi will pass thru the villages to reach Addis Ababa.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Hamer tribe- Manchester United<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • The football stars of tomorrow<br />
<br />
Thousands of Football shirts of Arsenal, Manchester, Chelsea, Milano, etc end up their carreer in... Ethiopia. Sold in the deep south, in the Omo Valley, those second hand clothes are bought by the local tribes. Most of them ignore the meaning of those shirts, and just buy them for the color, the logo, or the shape.<br />
No warrior will go out without his little pillow/seat.<br />
Some, like in Hamer tribe wear at the top of the head a clay helmet where they can put some ostrich feathers when they make a special action, like killing a wild animal, or...a man.<br />
Those tribes won’t exist in few years as the ethiopian governement has launched a huge plan to develop the area.<br />
Soon, a highway coming from Mombassa - Nairobi will pass thru the villages to reach Addis Ababa.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Darashe tribe - Inter Milan<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • The football stars of tomorrow<br />
<br />
Thousands of Football shirts of Arsenal, Manchester, Chelsea, Milano, etc end up their carreer in... Ethiopia. Sold in the deep south, in the Omo Valley, those second hand clothes are bought by the local tribes. Most of them ignore the meaning of those shirts, and just buy them for the color, the logo, or the shape.<br />
No warrior will go out without his little pillow/seat.<br />
Some, like in Hamer tribe wear at the top of the head a clay helmet where they can put some ostrich feathers when they make a special action, like killing a wild animal, or...a man.<br />
Those tribes won’t exist in few years as the ethiopian governement has launched a huge plan to develop the area.<br />
Soon, a highway coming from Mombassa - Nairobi will pass thru the villages to reach Addis Ababa.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Mursi Tribe - Arsenal<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • The football stars of tomorrow<br />
<br />
Thousands of Football shirts of Arsenal, Manchester, Chelsea, Milano, etc end up their carreer in... Ethiopia. Sold in the deep south, in the Omo Valley, those second hand clothes are bought by the local tribes. Most of them ignore the meaning of those shirts, and just buy them for the color, the logo, or the shape.<br />
No warrior will go out without his little pillow/seat.<br />
Some, like in Hamer tribe wear at the top of the head a clay helmet where they can put some ostrich feathers when they make a special action, like killing a wild animal, or...a man.<br />
Those tribes won’t exist in few years as the ethiopian governement has launched a huge plan to develop the area.<br />
Soon, a highway coming from Mombassa - Nairobi will pass thru the villages to reach Addis Ababa.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Hamer tribe - Brazil<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: For  hours  under a  hot  sun, they  will  run  around  a  sacred  tree. Many  walk  like babies, loosing  their <br />
balance...<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN20.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: On  the  day  of  the  Kael, the  fat  men  cover  their <br />
bodies with clay and ashes.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN21.jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: The Bodi girls are attracted by the fat men, and it is a good opportunity to show their charms to them.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN03.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Many  fear  that  the  Kael  will  end  soon  as  the  land  of  the  Bodis  has  been  colonised by foreign  compagnies and they are moved away in camps by the governement... destroying their culture.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN13.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: The fat men drink milk and blood all day long. The first  bowl  of blood  (1 to  2  liters)  is  drunk  at  sunrise. The place  is  invaded  by  flies. The  man must   drink   it   quickly   before   it <br />
coagulates. Some  can  not  drink  everything  and vomit it..<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN15.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Some fat men are so big that they cannot walk  anymore... This one asked me to use my car to go on the ceremony area.<br />
Once in the 4 wheels, he started to drink again 2  liters  of  milk. To  be the fatest  until the  last minute, he told me...<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN19.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Some fat men are so big that they cannot walk  anymore... This one asked me to use my car to go on the ceremony area.<br />
Once in the 4 wheels, he started to drink again 2  liters  of  milk. To  be the fatest  until the  last minute, he told me...<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN27.jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • The football stars of tomorrow<br />
<br />
Thousands of Football shirts of Arsenal, Manchester, Chelsea, Milano, etc end up their carreer in... Ethiopia. Sold in the deep south, in the Omo Valley, those second hand clothes are bought by the local tribes. Most of them ignore the meaning of those shirts, and just buy them for the color, the logo, or the shape.<br />
No warrior will go out without his little pillow/seat.<br />
Some, like in Hamer tribe wear at the top of the head a clay helmet where they can put some ostrich feathers when they make a special action, like killing a wild animal, or...a man.<br />
Those tribes won’t exist in few years as the ethiopian governement has launched a huge plan to develop the area.<br />
Soon, a highway coming from Mombassa - Nairobi will pass thru the villages to reach Addis Ababa.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Hamar in Turmi, Ethiopia. He wears a Chelsea shirt because all the men who can access to a Tv in villages love football!<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Bringing fresh milk in bamboos.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN01.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: On  the  day  of  the  Kael, the  fat  men  cover  their <br />
bodies with clay and ashes.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN07.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: On  the  day  of  the  Kael, the  fat  men  cover  their <br />
bodies with clay and ashes.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN08.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: The ceremony ends with the sacrifice of a cow. They kill it with a huge sacred stone. <br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN10.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: The elders will read i the stomach and its blood if the futur will be bright or not. It will be they said.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN11.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: For  hours  under a  hot  sun, they  will  run  around  a  sacred  tree. Many  walk  like babies, loosing  their <br />
balance...<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN17.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: The women take care of the fat men: they give them alcohol, remove the sweat, and sing for them to keep them awake.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN24.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: For  hours  under a  hot  sun, they  will  run  around  a  sacred  tree. Many  walk  like babies, loosing  their <br />
balance...<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN26.jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern Worldís Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials  bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment.<br />
Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.<br />
<br />
The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water, To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off).<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_African_tribe_turning_Western_...jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: On  the  day  of  the  Kael, the  fat  men  cover  their <br />
bodies with clay and ashes.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
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  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: A headdress made of ostriches feathers is attached on the head of the fat men<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN05.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: The Bodi girls are attracted by the fat men, and it is a good opportunity to show their charms to them.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN04.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: The ceremony ends with the sacrifice of a cow. They kill it with a huge sacred stone. <br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN09.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Becoming a fat man is the dream of every Bodi kid.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN18.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Some fat men are so big that they cannot walk  anymore... This one asked me to use my car to go on the ceremony area.<br />
Once in the 4 wheels, he started to drink again 2  liters  of  milk. To  be the fatest  until the  last minute, he told me...<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN22.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: For  hours  under a  hot  sun, they  will  run  around  a  sacred  tree. Many  walk  like babies, loosing  their <br />
balance...<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN25.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: He is the winner  In few weeks he will recover a normal  stomach and will remain a hero for life.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN28.jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • EL SOD: THE SALT OF LIFE<br />
 <br />
 El Sod, the House Of Salt, is a village located 90 km from Yabelo, the capital of Borana people in South Ethiopia. It stands on the edge of an extinct volcano wide of 1,8 km diameter, with a salted lake in the crater. For centuries, men dive into the lake to collect the salt and sell it across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya<br />
<br />
 It takes 1 hour on a narrow path to go down the 2,5 km from the village to the lake, 340 meters lower. The best view on the crater can be spotted from the recently built mosque.<br />
Every miner works as a free lance, independent from any company or boss. Most of the time divers are naked, the salted water being so agressive that it destroys everything, including clothes and shoes.<br />
 Miners try to protect their nose and ears with plugs made of soil wrapped in plastic bags. There’s no protection for the eyes: many suffer heavily from blindness.<br />
 When the weather is good after rains (Borana wait for it for months since the area suffers from drought) more than 200 men dive into the lake. More and more children are joining for the families to get some extra revenue. The parents are aware of the dangers but they don’t have any choice if they want to survive.<br />
<br />
Photo Shows:   Some men say they can make 3 trips in a single day. It takes them 30 mn to go down (at least double for a tourist), one hour to collect the salt, then 1 hour to clim up back to the village with loaded donkeys. Some men do work from sunrise to sunset.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Stunning_Images_The_Salt_Of_Li...jpg
  • EL SOD: THE SALT OF LIFE<br />
 <br />
 El Sod, the House Of Salt, is a village located 90 km from Yabelo, the capital of Borana people in South Ethiopia. It stands on the edge of an extinct volcano wide of 1,8 km diameter, with a salted lake in the crater. For centuries, men dive into the lake to collect the salt and sell it across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya<br />
<br />
 It takes 1 hour on a narrow path to go down the 2,5 km from the village to the lake, 340 meters lower. The best view on the crater can be spotted from the recently built mosque.<br />
Every miner works as a free lance, independent from any company or boss. Most of the time divers are naked, the salted water being so agressive that it destroys everything, including clothes and shoes.<br />
 Miners try to protect their nose and ears with plugs made of soil wrapped in plastic bags. There’s no protection for the eyes: many suffer heavily from blindness.<br />
 When the weather is good after rains (Borana wait for it for months since the area suffers from drought) more than 200 men dive into the lake. More and more children are joining for the families to get some extra revenue. The parents are aware of the dangers but they don’t have any choice if they want to survive.<br />
<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Stunning_Images_The_Salt_Of_Li...jpg
  • EL SOD: THE SALT OF LIFE<br />
 <br />
 El Sod, the House Of Salt, is a village located 90 km from Yabelo, the capital of Borana people in South Ethiopia. It stands on the edge of an extinct volcano wide of 1,8 km diameter, with a salted lake in the crater. For centuries, men dive into the lake to collect the salt and sell it across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya<br />
<br />
 It takes 1 hour on a narrow path to go down the 2,5 km from the village to the lake, 340 meters lower. The best view on the crater can be spotted from the recently built mosque.<br />
Every miner works as a free lance, independent from any company or boss. Most of the time divers are naked, the salted water being so agressive that it destroys everything, including clothes and shoes.<br />
 Miners try to protect their nose and ears with plugs made of soil wrapped in plastic bags. There’s no protection for the eyes: many suffer heavily from blindness.<br />
 When the weather is good after rains (Borana wait for it for months since the area suffers from drought) more than 200 men dive into the lake. More and more children are joining for the families to get some extra revenue. The parents are aware of the dangers but they don’t have any choice if they want to survive.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Stunning_Images_The_Salt_Of_Li...jpg
  • EL SOD: THE SALT OF LIFE<br />
 <br />
 El Sod, the House Of Salt, is a village located 90 km from Yabelo, the capital of Borana people in South Ethiopia. It stands on the edge of an extinct volcano wide of 1,8 km diameter, with a salted lake in the crater. For centuries, men dive into the lake to collect the salt and sell it across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya<br />
<br />
 It takes 1 hour on a narrow path to go down the 2,5 km from the village to the lake, 340 meters lower. The best view on the crater can be spotted from the recently built mosque.<br />
Every miner works as a free lance, independent from any company or boss. Most of the time divers are naked, the salted water being so agressive that it destroys everything, including clothes and shoes.<br />
 Miners try to protect their nose and ears with plugs made of soil wrapped in plastic bags. There’s no protection for the eyes: many suffer heavily from blindness.<br />
 When the weather is good after rains (Borana wait for it for months since the area suffers from drought) more than 200 men dive into the lake. More and more children are joining for the families to get some extra revenue. The parents are aware of the dangers but they don’t have any choice if they want to survive.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Stunning_Images_The_Salt_Of_Li...jpg
  • EL SOD: THE SALT OF LIFE<br />
 <br />
 El Sod, the House Of Salt, is a village located 90 km from Yabelo, the capital of Borana people in South Ethiopia. It stands on the edge of an extinct volcano wide of 1,8 km diameter, with a salted lake in the crater. For centuries, men dive into the lake to collect the salt and sell it across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya<br />
<br />
 It takes 1 hour on a narrow path to go down the 2,5 km from the village to the lake, 340 meters lower. The best view on the crater can be spotted from the recently built mosque.<br />
Every miner works as a free lance, independent from any company or boss. Most of the time divers are naked, the salted water being so agressive that it destroys everything, including clothes and shoes.<br />
 Miners try to protect their nose and ears with plugs made of soil wrapped in plastic bags. There’s no protection for the eyes: many suffer heavily from blindness.<br />
 When the weather is good after rains (Borana wait for it for months since the area suffers from drought) more than 200 men dive into the lake. More and more children are joining for the families to get some extra revenue. The parents are aware of the dangers but they don’t have any choice if they want to survive.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Stunning_Images_The_Salt_Of_Li...jpg
  • EL SOD: THE SALT OF LIFE<br />
 <br />
 El Sod, the House Of Salt, is a village located 90 km from Yabelo, the capital of Borana people in South Ethiopia. It stands on the edge of an extinct volcano wide of 1,8 km diameter, with a salted lake in the crater. For centuries, men dive into the lake to collect the salt and sell it across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya<br />
<br />
 It takes 1 hour on a narrow path to go down the 2,5 km from the village to the lake, 340 meters lower. The best view on the crater can be spotted from the recently built mosque.<br />
Every miner works as a free lance, independent from any company or boss. Most of the time divers are naked, the salted water being so agressive that it destroys everything, including clothes and shoes.<br />
 Miners try to protect their nose and ears with plugs made of soil wrapped in plastic bags. There’s no protection for the eyes: many suffer heavily from blindness.<br />
 When the weather is good after rains (Borana wait for it for months since the area suffers from drought) more than 200 men dive into the lake. More and more children are joining for the families to get some extra revenue. The parents are aware of the dangers but they don’t have any choice if they want to survive.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Stunning_Images_The_Salt_Of_Li...jpg
  • EL SOD: THE SALT OF LIFE<br />
 <br />
 El Sod, the House Of Salt, is a village located 90 km from Yabelo, the capital of Borana people in South Ethiopia. It stands on the edge of an extinct volcano wide of 1,8 km diameter, with a salted lake in the crater. For centuries, men dive into the lake to collect the salt and sell it across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya<br />
<br />
 It takes 1 hour on a narrow path to go down the 2,5 km from the village to the lake, 340 meters lower. The best view on the crater can be spotted from the recently built mosque.<br />
Every miner works as a free lance, independent from any company or boss. Most of the time divers are naked, the salted water being so agressive that it destroys everything, including clothes and shoes.<br />
 Miners try to protect their nose and ears with plugs made of soil wrapped in plastic bags. There’s no protection for the eyes: many suffer heavily from blindness.<br />
 When the weather is good after rains (Borana wait for it for months since the area suffers from drought) more than 200 men dive into the lake. More and more children are joining for the families to get some extra revenue. The parents are aware of the dangers but they don’t have any choice if they want to survive.<br />
<br />
Photo Shows:  Some men say they can make 3 trips in a single day. It takes them 30 mn to go down (at least double for a tourist), one hour to collect the salt, then 1 hour to clim up back to the village with loaded donkeys. Some men do work from sunrise to sunset.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Stunning_Images_The_Salt_Of_Li...jpg
  • EL SOD: THE SALT OF LIFE<br />
 <br />
 El Sod, the House Of Salt, is a village located 90 km from Yabelo, the capital of Borana people in South Ethiopia. It stands on the edge of an extinct volcano wide of 1,8 km diameter, with a salted lake in the crater. For centuries, men dive into the lake to collect the salt and sell it across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya<br />
<br />
 It takes 1 hour on a narrow path to go down the 2,5 km from the village to the lake, 340 meters lower. The best view on the crater can be spotted from the recently built mosque.<br />
Every miner works as a free lance, independent from any company or boss. Most of the time divers are naked, the salted water being so agressive that it destroys everything, including clothes and shoes.<br />
 Miners try to protect their nose and ears with plugs made of soil wrapped in plastic bags. There’s no protection for the eyes: many suffer heavily from blindness.<br />
 When the weather is good after rains (Borana wait for it for months since the area suffers from drought) more than 200 men dive into the lake. More and more children are joining for the families to get some extra revenue. The parents are aware of the dangers but they don’t have any choice if they want to survive.<br />
<br />
Photo Shows;  Once the donkeys are loaded with 2x25kg of salt in each bag, they have to climb up to the village on the edge of the volcano. Under the sun, the rocks are turning into an oven, making the way back a hell. Some miners even collapse after such efforts.<br />
There is no room for industrialisation: Boranas are against it, willing to carry on this tradition as source of - small- revenues, and part of their culture.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Stunning_Images_The_Salt_Of_Li...jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: For  hours  under a  hot  sun, they  will  run  around  a  sacred  tree. Many  walk  like babies, loosing  their <br />
balance...<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN23.jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: A headdress made of ostriches feathers is attached on the head of the fat men<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN06.jpg
  • The football stars of tomorrow<br />
<br />
Thousands of Football shirts of Arsenal, Manchester, Chelsea, Milano, etc end up their carreer in... Ethiopia. Sold in the deep south, in the Omo Valley, those second hand clothes are bought by the local tribes. Most of them ignore the meaning of those shirts, and just buy them for the color, the logo, or the shape.<br />
No warrior will go out without his little pillow/seat.<br />
Some, like in Hamer tribe wear at the top of the head a clay helmet where they can put some ostrich feathers when they make a special action, like killing a wild animal, or...a man.<br />
Those tribes won’t exist in few years as the ethiopian governement has launched a huge plan to develop the area.<br />
Soon, a highway coming from Mombassa - Nairobi will pass thru the villages to reach Addis Ababa.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Hamer Tribe Woman With A Juventus United  Football Shirt,<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • The football stars of tomorrow<br />
<br />
Thousands of Football shirts of Arsenal, Manchester, Chelsea, Milano, etc end up their carreer in... Ethiopia. Sold in the deep south, in the Omo Valley, those second hand clothes are bought by the local tribes. Most of them ignore the meaning of those shirts, and just buy them for the color, the logo, or the shape.<br />
No warrior will go out without his little pillow/seat.<br />
Some, like in Hamer tribe wear at the top of the head a clay helmet where they can put some ostrich feathers when they make a special action, like killing a wild animal, or...a man.<br />
Those tribes won’t exist in few years as the ethiopian governement has launched a huge plan to develop the area.<br />
Soon, a highway coming from Mombassa - Nairobi will pass thru the villages to reach Addis Ababa.<br />
<br />
Photo shows: Hamer Tribe Man With A Barcelona Football Shirt<br />
©Eric Lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_The_football_stars_of_tomorrow...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • EL SOD: THE SALT OF LIFE<br />
 <br />
 El Sod, the House Of Salt, is a village located 90 km from Yabelo, the capital of Borana people in South Ethiopia. It stands on the edge of an extinct volcano wide of 1,8 km diameter, with a salted lake in the crater. For centuries, men dive into the lake to collect the salt and sell it across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya<br />
<br />
 It takes 1 hour on a narrow path to go down the 2,5 km from the village to the lake, 340 meters lower. The best view on the crater can be spotted from the recently built mosque.<br />
Every miner works as a free lance, independent from any company or boss. Most of the time divers are naked, the salted water being so agressive that it destroys everything, including clothes and shoes.<br />
 Miners try to protect their nose and ears with plugs made of soil wrapped in plastic bags. There’s no protection for the eyes: many suffer heavily from blindness.<br />
 When the weather is good after rains (Borana wait for it for months since the area suffers from drought) more than 200 men dive into the lake. More and more children are joining for the families to get some extra revenue. The parents are aware of the dangers but they don’t have any choice if they want to survive.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Stunning_Images_The_Salt_Of_Li...jpg
  • BODI TRIBE FAT MEN<br />
(very) big is beautiful<br />
<br />
Every  year,  takes  place  in the deep south of Ethiopia, in  the <br />
remote  area of Omo valley, the celebration of  the  Bodi  tribe  new <br />
year: the Kael.For  6  months  the  men  from  the tribe will   feed   themselves with only fresh  milk  and  blood  from <br />
the cows. They will not  be allowed to  have sex and to go out of their  little hut.  Everybody will take care of  them, the  girls  bringing  milk  every morning in pots or bamboos. The  winner  is  the  bigger.  He  just <br />
wins fame, nothing special. This  area does not  welcome tourists and has kept his traditions<br />
<br />
Photo shows: For  hours  under a  hot  sun, they  will  run  around  a  sacred  tree. Many  walk  like babies, loosing  their <br />
balance...<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_BODI_TRIBE_FAT_MEN16.jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • EL SOD: THE SALT OF LIFE<br />
 <br />
 El Sod, the House Of Salt, is a village located 90 km from Yabelo, the capital of Borana people in South Ethiopia. It stands on the edge of an extinct volcano wide of 1,8 km diameter, with a salted lake in the crater. For centuries, men dive into the lake to collect the salt and sell it across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya<br />
<br />
 It takes 1 hour on a narrow path to go down the 2,5 km from the village to the lake, 340 meters lower. The best view on the crater can be spotted from the recently built mosque.<br />
Every miner works as a free lance, independent from any company or boss. Most of the time divers are naked, the salted water being so agressive that it destroys everything, including clothes and shoes.<br />
 Miners try to protect their nose and ears with plugs made of soil wrapped in plastic bags. There’s no protection for the eyes: many suffer heavily from blindness.<br />
 When the weather is good after rains (Borana wait for it for months since the area suffers from drought) more than 200 men dive into the lake. More and more children are joining for the families to get some extra revenue. The parents are aware of the dangers but they don’t have any choice if they want to survive.<br />
<br />
Photo Shows:  Early morning, the first divers enter the lake with long wooden sticks.<br />
They use the sticks to break the bottom of the lake; then they dive along them in the shallow water, collect the black mud full of salt, and bring it back on the bank.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Stunning_Images_The_Salt_Of_Li...jpg
  • EL SOD: THE SALT OF LIFE<br />
 <br />
 El Sod, the House Of Salt, is a village located 90 km from Yabelo, the capital of Borana people in South Ethiopia. It stands on the edge of an extinct volcano wide of 1,8 km diameter, with a salted lake in the crater. For centuries, men dive into the lake to collect the salt and sell it across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya<br />
<br />
 It takes 1 hour on a narrow path to go down the 2,5 km from the village to the lake, 340 meters lower. The best view on the crater can be spotted from the recently built mosque.<br />
Every miner works as a free lance, independent from any company or boss. Most of the time divers are naked, the salted water being so agressive that it destroys everything, including clothes and shoes.<br />
 Miners try to protect their nose and ears with plugs made of soil wrapped in plastic bags. There’s no protection for the eyes: many suffer heavily from blindness.<br />
 When the weather is good after rains (Borana wait for it for months since the area suffers from drought) more than 200 men dive into the lake. More and more children are joining for the families to get some extra revenue. The parents are aware of the dangers but they don’t have any choice if they want to survive.<br />
©Eric lafforgue/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Stunning_Images_The_Salt_Of_Li...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...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_Scarifications19.jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...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_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_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_Scarifications26.jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
  • Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories<br />
<br />
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the past, the tribe roamed from place to place herding livestock around open areas according to the seasons and the changing availability of water. But over the last fifty years, having lost the majority of their lands, they have also grown dependent to agriculture. Like many tribes in the region, the Daasanach have moved to areas closer to the Omo River, where they attempt to grow enough crops to survive.<br />
<br />
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has spent several years documenting the life and culture of these people, and how they have changed under the influence of modern manufactured goods. An interesting fashion trend amongst the Dassanach is their elaborate headgear, which they make from the strangest of materials — bottle caps, wristwatches, hairclips, and other discarded pieces of plastic and metal.<br />
The Daasanach spend months collecting bottle caps and scratching around for cash to pay for broken watches, which the women makes into jewelry and wigs. These are worn by both men and women, young and old.<br />
<br />
“Younger girls and children get the most basic version of the wig, while the oldest women are treated to the heaviest numbers with the most embellishment,” wrote The Daily Mail. “Men are only allowed to wear the bottle top wigs until they marry - after that, they create small clay headpieces decorated with a colourful harlequin pattern and enlivened with a feather, although the latter is only allowed after a hunt or a successful clash with an enemy.”<br />
<br />
“The young men love to wear necklaces and earrings while the girls have bigger muscles because they do the most difficult work like carrying water,” Eric Lafforgue told the newspaper.<br />
<br />
To prevent their headgears from getting spoiled while they sleep (apparently, they never take them off), they use
    Exclusivepix_Exclusivepix_Recycled_I...jpg
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