But by taking pictures of the tribes, I am actually hastening that change. Foreigners began trickling into the Omo River Valley just prior to the 1936–1941 Italian occupation, after historian ...

Alawara Kolbala, 39, from the Mursi tribe, said he remembers the sense of pride and hope his community felt when they ...

New York-based art director and photographer Diego Arroyo recently returned from a trip to Ethiopia to document the ancient tribes of the Omo Valley. During his time in Ethiopia, Arroyo spent time ...

Occasionally they are deployed in skirmishes between the different tribes of the Omo Valley, Biwa says, or used to kill the huge crocodiles that thrash in the river’s chocolatey brown waters.

When I visited the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia almost two decades ago, there were few dirt roads, and tribes lived in mud huts and were mostly naked except for spectacular body paint.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – The Lower Omo Valley in south-western Ethiopia is a vast and rugged region of mountains and valleys, inhabited largely by nomadic agro-pastoralist tribes numbering some ...

Lebanese photographer Omar Reda spent four days with three tribes living in the Omo Valley A new series of portraits have revealed the striking beauty of the women from the Omo Valley tribes of ...

The tribes, known for their tattoos, body paint and lip plates, are a big draw for tourists to the region, but Exodus said the recent construction of a new road has had a negative impact, bringing ...