Sometimes monochrome just does it best.
Colour, for all its benefits and virtues, occasionally provides information overload and distracts from the essential structure of an image. This can be particularly true in Africa where colours are often at their most vivid and intense.
A black and white interpretation instead allows us to view the simple bare bones of an image leaving both its subject and its textural simplicity open to examination and scrutiny.
This collection of black and white photographs are part of The End of Days – The Last of the Omo Valley Tribes series.
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- Surma women with clay pots
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- Zino Fishing – Karo Tribe
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- Surma mother & painted baby
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- Surma Woman with Lip Plate and painted children
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- Mursi Bride
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Mursi Bride
Bride at a wedding shot on 35mm B&W film on a Canon EOS 5.
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- Portrait of a Surma girl
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- Surma girl
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- Mursi Girl with painted face
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Mursi Girl with painted face
Mursi Girl with painted face
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- Mursi Boy is taken out to the Terro Donga arena
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Mursi Boy is taken out to the Terro Donga arena
A reluctant participant of the Terro Donga is encouraged to take his place in the arena
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- Oligidane with cattle – Mursi Tribe
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Oligidane with cattle – Mursi Tribe
Oligidane is the eldest son of Ng’orog’s village chief, Ker Gano
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- Kwegu men in dugout canoe on the Omo River
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- Kwegu boatman
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Kwegu boatman
The Kwegu in their dugout canoes are the gondoliers of the Omo River
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- Kwegu man with dugout canoe on the Omo River
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- Karo woman looks over the Omo River
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- Karo Children
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- Hamar Boy watches for crocodiles on the Omo River
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- Dassanech Dimi Men
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Dassanech Dimi Men
The Dimi is the Dassanech Tribe’s female coming of age ceremony. For more information see the Dimi section.
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- The Culmination of the Dimi Ceremony – Dassanech Tribe
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The Culmination of the Dimi Ceremony – Dassanech Tribe
The Dimi is the Dassanech Tribe’s female coming of age ceremony. For more information see the Dimi section.
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- Oligidane – Mursi Boy – Portrait
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Oligidane – Mursi Boy – Portrait
Portrait of Oligidane shot on 35mm B&W film on a Canon EOS 5.
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- Old Mursi Woman Prepares Coffee
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Old Mursi Woman Prepares Coffee
Portrait of a woman shot on 35mm B&W film on a Canon EOS 5.
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- Ker Gano – Mursi Elder Portrait 1
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Ker Gano – Mursi Elder Portrait 1
B&W portrait shot on 35mm B&W film on a Canon EOS 5.
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- Ker Gano – Mursi Elder Portrait 2
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Ker Gano – Mursi Elder Portrait 2
Village chief, Ker Gano, shot on 35mm B&W film on a Canon EOS 5.
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- Omo River Gondalier 1 – Dugo
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Omo River Gondalier 1 – Dugout Canoe
Dugout canoe crossing the Omo River at Rate shot on 35mm B&W film on a Canon EOS 5.
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- Omo River Gondalier 2 – Dugout Canoe
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Omo River Gondalier 2 – Dugout Canoe
Dugout canoe crossing the Omo River at Rate shot on 35mm B&W film on a Canon EOS 5.