African tribes

Globalisation and development are impacting heavily on the lives of tribes living in the Omo Valley who depend on the river for their survival

Photographers around the world decided to leave their daily schedules behind, grab their cameras and explore some of the world's most isolated tribes.

Portraits of Ethiopia's Suri tribe show the age-old tradition of inserting clay plates into their bottom lips as a status symbol. The tribe inhabit the mountains of the Great Rift Valley in south-western Ethiopia.

The innocence and isolation allow these tribes to wholeheartedly express their unique cultures.

A stylish kingdom

The Dogon are an ancient West African tribe. They claim to be the living conduit between heaven and Earth, and to possess knowledge of man's true origins.

Karo tribe of Ethiopia have a culture and art of decorating themselves with nature . Stunning 😍. BUT their existence is threatened by money hungry companies, by building the Gibe dams and farms for foreign farming, displacing them. (arcgis.com karo tribe) help fight this.

Bakongo (also known as Mkongo or Mukongo). In one of the Bantu languages, Kongo, the word “Ba” means “People” while “Kongo” according to an adventure means “Hunter” while according to others it means “Gathering” or “Mountains”. There is yet to a decisive context for it. Even the term “Congo” was a term used to refer to

I’m Vlad Cioplea, a photographer from Romania. This autumn I went to Tanzania, Africa, to photograph Maasai, Bushman and Tatoga tribes because I’ve always liked to discover people from different cultures and passions. Because of that, a year ago, I started my first project with my friends and their passions, "100 Friends".