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Ethiopia 2013: The Market in Turmi I was glad to get a chance to shoot a market. It’s what I’m familiar with. I’m confident in the markets unlike the posing we had been doing when we stopped to visit the various tribes … Continue reading
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Ethiopia 2013 My husband and I once saw a gallery exhibition of Irving Penn’s photographs of West African people. They were stunning. Most of the women seemed to be from the Mandingo tribe of Mali. Their extravagant dress, made of many … Continue reading
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Ethiopia 2013, Somewhere in the Omo Valley Three Hamar men attend a ceremony celebrating a young man’s entry into the rank of warrior. The event is called a “bull jumping” and the candidate, who has been circumcised recently, must take a running jump and leap … Continue reading
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Ethiopia 2013, Saturday Market in Lalibella Lalibella lies on a mountain top. It’s surrounded by more mountains and fertile valleys farmed in the age-old way: plowing is done with bullocks pulling a wooden plow, sowing and reaping is done by hand. The landscape is pristine. The … Continue reading
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Ethiopia, 2013: Hamar Tribesman We waited for our dugouts to take us across the river to visit the Dassanetch Tribe. Did you learn about dugouts in grammar school as I did? I can still remember Sister Jane Mary discussing the virtues … Continue reading
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Mopti, a city on the Niger River in Mali: 2001 We visited the home of a trader to buy masks. He made his living going to tribes in the bush and trading with them in exchange for ceremonial objects. African … Continue reading
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Mali or Senegal 1998 Our van had broken down on the way to Senegal. We waited under a huge kapok tree which was the only shade available. The landscape of red earth was covered in brush and punctuated by termite … Continue reading
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The Grande Marche in Bamako, Mali 1998 By the time we had walked from our hotel to the Grand Marche in the center of Bamako, I was woozy with the heat, the smells and the effects of Larium, a preventative … Continue reading
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Between Timbuktu and Araouane, Mali 2003… A Fulani family traveling with all their belongings I can’t remember exactly where we saw them, but they stand in a harvested millet field, so they are near a village with a source of water. … Continue reading
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Mopti, Mali 1998 I sat on the bank of the Niger River across from our hotel. Fine, dust-like sand from the Sahara turned the air a pale brown, almost hiding the straw huts of the Bozo village on the opposite banks. I watched as … Continue reading
