Occasionally and surprisingly infrequently an image works best as a Sepia Tone. A monochromatic view that makes a subject come alive. More often than not the technique is used as a simple way to ‘age’ a photograph and create a period look but Sepia Tones have so much more to offer.
Black and White removes much of the colourful distraction from a photograph – but also often gives the image a harder, starker more dramatic look. Sepia allows it to express itself in a monochromatic way that is neither colour nor just Black & White; it softens an image and gives it a timeless quality.
These Sepia Tones are part of The End of Days – The Last of the Omo Valley Tribes series.
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- Dassanech Girl in a doorway.
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- Young Boy with Grass Headress
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Young Boy with Grass Headress – Sepia Tone
Body adornment is an significant part of the Surma way of life
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- Painted Surma Boy
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Surma Boy – Sepia Tone
The Surma people often paint their faces and bodies and incise their ears to fit plugs.
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- Portrait of a Mursi Woman
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- Mursi boy awaits the Terro Donga
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Mursi boy awaits the Terro Donga – Sepia Tone
This Mursi boy is awaiting his turn in the Terro Donga – a Mursi right of passage
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- Ker Gano and a favourite cow
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Ker Gano with cow -Sepia Tone
Ker Gano is a Mursi village chief.
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- Oligidane Milking a Cow
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Oligidane milking – Sepia Tone
Oligidane, a Mursi boy, is Ker Gano eldest son.
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- Kwegu Boatman
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- Bimade Done milking
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Bimade Done milking – Sepia Tone
Bimade Done, a Mursi woman, is Ker Gano’s wife