Inspired by a shared interest in the dress codes of various social groups – as well as the way people pose – photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have systematically documented numerous fashion tribes over the last 20 years, curating the remarkably similar looks of the rebels, bonkerboys and cappuccio girls. All photographs: Exactitudes®

Photos of the Omo River Valley tribes from Sebastião Salgado's forthcoming book Genesis.

Inspired by a shared interest in the dress codes of various social groups – as well as the way people pose – photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have systematically documented numerous fashion tribes over the last 20 years, curating the remarkably similar looks of the rebels, bonkerboys and cappuccio girls. All photographs: Exactitudes®

Himba woman in Namibia. The leadership of the Himba are opposed to the construction of a dam in their area.

I only knew the bushmen thanks to an old movie i saw in my chilhood: The Gods Must Be Crazy. So it was a nice experience to meet them in Namibia. The San culture is dispearing as the new generation is living in the towns now, and few people still live the life of their grand father times. It is sad to see them on supermarket parkings begging for money. They have a special language made with clicks of the tongue. They also look much more like asian people than african. © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com

The History of Africa before Colonisation starting with the age of Africa in antiquity consisted of a number of African Kingdoms and Peoples which had inhabited the African Continent for at least 100 000 years. Below is a list of some of the most significant African Kingdoms and peoples

Let me guess who you're talking about. Ebony. She swore her loyalty to me through lips as red as cherries, and then destroyed my life from the depths of a heart as dark as coal.Ram about Ebony Ebony was the co-leader of the Locos and later joined the Mall Rats. Ambitious, manipulative and cunning, Ebony is a complex character who is neither good or purely evil - she often betrays the Mall Rats but redemption is gained by incidents where she saves them. Despite being power-hungry and out for numb

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The Lele people are a subgroup from the Kuba Kingdom of the Democratic Republic of Congo who originally resided along the Kasai River region.

T'bolis are known for their traditional dances, colourful costumes and adornments. They are one of the last remaining Philippine tribes whose customs and traditions are still well preserved. T'boli woven fabrics, embroidery, beadwork and brassware are much sought after.

Young girl from the Mursi Tribe, Omo Valley, Ethiopia. The Mursi or Mursu are living in Ethiopia's Omo Valley. They are well known for their unique lip plates. They are settled around the Omo River and in the Mago National Park. Due to the climate, they move twice a year between the winter and summer months. They herd cattle and grow crops along the banks of the Omo River. The Series "African Vogue" contains about 300 portraits of tribe members of the Omo Valley in Ethiopia. (Including members of the Arbore Tribe, Mursi Tribe, Nyangatom Tribe, Bodi Tribe, Hamer Tribe, Benna Tribe, Konso). The pictures were taken in October 2013 - All pictures were taken in natural light situations with a Leica S digital middle format camera. All pictures were taken in natural light situations with a Leica S digital middle format camera. More pictures and "Making of" Material can be found at: blackocean.ch/portfolio/3550/ The Series (approx. 50 images / all framed 50cmx70cm) is available for Exhibitions. For enquries, please send a message to [email protected]

These are trending photos of a northern bride who is dressed in a lovely Fulani attire. Her pictures have made the needed impact on the minds of people without she flaunting their body parts like most women do.There is this anecdotal view that Igbo women are the most beautiful in Nigeria but the Fulani tribe also boasts of lovely women who could rival the Igbo tribe.A top commenter who appreciated the pictures here have this to say: "Damm!!! Northern ladies are the goddesses of Nigeria. So real and natural like a water fall, so beautiful like a dove, no faking it, no bleaching of the skin, 90% of them don't put on fake hair attachment."

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. - Victor Hugo Hundreds, possibly thousands, of images of people

Detail of Beadwork of Ndebele Woman

Brit photographer Jimmy Nelson, 52, captures the raw, natural beauty of tribespeople adorned in traditional dress, many with elaborate face paint and extraordinarily headdresses

This is the category page for the cast of The Tribe. All pages within the category can be found below the article. Amy Morrison (Zandra) Antonia Prebble (Trudy) Ari Boyland (K.C.) Ashwath...

On this picture, a Mursi woman, the most agressive tribe i met. Agressive in the way that when you come to see them (after hours of 4x4 on a very bad track), they only think about the money they can get from you! The craziest thing is that they ask for a fee to park the car (20 euros!) at the entrance of the village!! They use pigs tusks or hippo teeth as a decoration. the main problem is that they tend to use more and more things to attract photographers! You may have seen or read books about this area by great photographers those last years, and many of the people inside are just "disguised"... But at the end, those tribes really live like in the primitives times, whitout anything around apart their catle, and still fighting with other tribes to catch cows and women... This is a daily reality in this area of the world! 7 000 tourists visit the mursis every year. It makes an average of 20 by day in a very big area, so it's very few.But as 70% are from Spain and pay a low fee to the tour operator, some tribes start to settle close to "hotels" or campings to get money from the photographers. I had the chance to go in Omo valley with a guide who avoid those touristic spots. The Mursi (also called Murzu) is the most popular tribe in the southwestern Ethiopia lower Omo Valley, 100 km north of Kenyan. They are estimated to 10 000 people and live in the Mago National Park, established in 1979. Due to the climate, they move twice a year between the winter and summer months. They herd cattle and grow crops along the banks of the Omo River. The Mursi are sedentary rather than nomadic. Their language belongs to the Nilo-Saharan linguistic family.Very few Mursi people speak Amharic, the official Ethiopian language. Although a small percentage of the Mursi tribe are Christians, most still practice animism. Mursi women wear giant lip plate, a sign of beauty, like in Suri tribe, and also a prime attraction for tourists which help to sustain a view of them, in guidebooks and travel articles, as an untouched people, living in one of the last wildernesses of Africa. When they are ready to marry, teenagers start to make a hole in the lower lip with a wood stick. It will be kept for one night, and is removed to put a bigger one. This is very painful at this time. Few months after, the lip plate has its full size, and the girl is seen as beautiful by the men. The lip plate is made of wood or terracotta. They have to remove the lower incisors to let some space for the disc. Sometimes the lip is broken by the pressure of the plate. This is a big problem for the girl because men will consider her as ugly, she won't be able to marry anyone in the tribe apart the old men or the sick people. Women and men are shaved because they hate hairiness. Both like to make scarifications on their bodies. Women as a beauty sign, men after killing animals or ennemies as competition for grazing land has led to tribal conflicts. The Mursi men have a reputation for being aggressive and are famous for their stick fighting ceremony called donga. The winner of the donga will be able to select the girl of his choice to have relations with if she agrees. Similar to the Surma tribe, the Mursi tribe commonly drink a mixture of blood and milk. Over the past few decades they and their neighbours have faced growing threats to their livelihoods cause the Ethiopian government officials have been actively evicting Mursi people from the Omo National Park, without any compensation to rent their land to foreign investors. Drought has made it difficult for many families to feed themselves by means of their traditional mix of subsistence activities. The establishment of hunting concessions has added to the pressure on scarce ressources. © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com

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German photographer Mario Gerth, 38, spent seven years photographing tribal societies in Africa, including Ethiopian Muris women who wear elaborate lip plates as a sign of beauty.

These 9 women represent the 9 official tribes of Eritrea. They each have different languages they speak, music they play, clothes they wear, foods that are seen as special ( yes its true not everyone...

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La cámara de un fotógrafo recoge mucho más que una imagen. Tiene el poder de captar los cinco sentidos y añadir oportunismo, sensibilidad o crudeza según enfoque su mirada, según dicte el momento. Aquí recogemos 60 de las mejores fotografías de la historia en un recorrido que emociona, sorprende y recuerda. La adolescente de 17 años Rose Kasmir ofrece

Mark Broadhead: Below are the top five winners. Congratulations to all of you. Thanks as always to everyone for participating. Could the top five winners please send me the story behind the photo (how they came to take the photo) and he'll post it below the image. Could the photographer placed first contact me via flickrmail with their choice of guide and their postal address. Check out all the photos with Ewah's Challenge counter In joint first place with 23 votes is Lucie Debelkova's "Iran - Beautiful Iranian Girl with Magic Eyes from Kashan" When you travel in Iran you cannot miss some of those lovely Iranian paintings picturing beautiful girls and woman on them. One of the things that caught my eye when looking at those paintings was that women are quite often pictured with their eyebrows that are widened and painted until they appear to meet. I thought it was an artistic vision of the painter rather than a reality, till I started to notice some of the Iranian girls with same physical features. My Iranian friend has mentioned afterward that it used be a fashion style at some point in Iranian history and if the eyebrow didn't physically grow together, ladies used to paint it that way. Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Lens focal length: 24.00 - 105.00 mm, Photo Focal length: 105.00 mm, Aperture: 4.5, Exposure time: 1/160 s, ISO: 400 In joint first place with 23 votes is RobertDouglas' "Pink China" These are billboards surrounding a huge new tower complex in downtown Beijing. They've been building them for over three years now and I have taken a number of photos of cyclists and pedestrians walking past different adverts. This time I did frame the photo and then waited, sitting on the pavement for about 40 min, until the "correct" person walked past. Correct, meaning right type of clothes and color. I shot it on my Canon Powershot s5. In second place with 19 votes is rovinglight's "Tibetan" In third place with 17 votes is MADIASH's "The eyes" In joint fourth place with 16 votes is Give-on's "African Eyes !" In joint fourth place with 16 votes is PBGalerie.ch's "Curious - Kawaza" In joint fourth place with 16 votes is lboogie's "Beautiful Asian elephant eye - Elephant Nature Park" In fifth place with with 15 votes is Sam.Seyffert's "Kalash girl" The Kalash are a tiny and dwindling community of non-muslims living in two valleys in the Hindu Kush mountains in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province. (Frontier as in the frontier with Afghanistan) Kalash culture and belief system differs drastically from the various ethnic groups surrounding them but is similar to that of the neighboring Nuristanis (Kafirs) in northeast Afghanistan, before their enforced Islamization in the last decade of the 19th century. My favourite (apart from the winners) is livetowander's "Determination" There was a battle for territory and a pride of females taking place and the lion in the shot was younger and fitter, going up against the more experienced alpha male of the pride in situ. I never did find out who won the battle...

The Oromo (Oromo: Oromoo, "The Powerful"; Ge'ez: ኦሮሞ, 'Oromo) are an ethnic group found in Ethiopia, northern Kenya, and parts of Somalia. ...

The Muhacaona (Mucawana) tribe of south Angola use as usual in Africa cow dungs and fat to create this haircut. It was quite difficult to fine some villages deep south in Angola. Finlay we passed by a church where we could fine some lady sitting in the sun and waiting for the next service.

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There is a tribe deep in the center of Africa that was once famous for its hair styles that defied nature. They practiced Lipombo’ – the art of head elongation that denoted majesty and status…the Mangbetu. An amalgam of linguistically- and culturally-related peoples of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Mangbetu refers to a large people group of the northeastern...

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Noi siamo abituati al tradizionale abito bianco, ma le finlandesi prediligono i colori scuri come nero o blu. Vediamo come sono gli abiti da sposa nel mondo

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For over a century, one of the most important salmon runs in the United States has had to contend with historic dams – and now four of them are set to be taken down.

Fashion/Art Blogger from Ivory Coast. Here you'll find a collection of beautiful african pieces from various designers.