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The Karo excel in body art. Before dances and ceremonial occasions, they decorate their faces and torsos elaborately using local white chalk, pulverised rock and other natural pigments
In the early morning, a Dassanech man puts on his serval cat skin cape and ostrich-feather headdress to participate in his Dimi ceremony, an important initiation ceremony
A Dassanech man with a shock of hair.; The Omo Delta of southwest Ethiopia is one of the least accessible and least developed parts of East Africa
Nyangatom men their faces and bodies with stylised patterns using natural pigments obtained from chalk, ochre and crushed rock prior to a dance
A young Dorze boy winds cotton onto a bobin for his father. Dorze men are synonymous with weaving the best cotton cloth in Ethiopia
A Dorze man sits outside his home smoking locally-grown tobacco using a traditional long-stemmed pipe. Living in highlands west of the Abyssinian Rift Valley
The Dorze people living in highlands west of the Abyssinian Rift Valley have a unique style of building their homes. The twenty-foot-high bamboo frame is covered with the sheaths of bamboo stems or
A Borana man at Mega in southern Ethiopia wears a phallic Kallaacha on his forehead. Made of cast aluminium and ivory or bone
Warriors of the nomadic Afar tribe wear their hair long and carry large curved daggers, known as jile, strapped to their waists
A Mursi man smears his body with a mixture of local chalk and water and then draws designs with his fingertips to enhance his physical appearance.The Mursi speak a Nilotic language
A Mursi woman wearing a large clay lip plate. Shortly before marriage, a girls lower lip will be pierced and progressively stretched over a year or so
A Karo man with braided hair plays a traditional stringed instrument beside the Omo River near Duss. Young men settle disputes by fighting with hippo hide whips
A Dassanech man in full tribal regalia participates in a dance during a month-long ceremony. He wears a cheetah skin draped on his backs and a black ostrich-feather headdress
Galatina, province of Lecce, Salento, Apulia, Italy. The Luminarie of Salento, one of the symbols of the cultural traditions of the territory
Cathedral of Monreale, Monreale, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Europe
Chinatown, London, England, UK
Jumeirah Beach, Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Middle East
Decorative coloured lanterns inside Joyesa Temple, Jongno-gu district, Seoul, South Korea
Elevated view over Deoksugung Palace, Gwanghwamun, Seoul, South Korea
Chinese New Year Kumquat Trees With Lai See Red Envelopes, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China
USA, Kansas, Mullinville, Fromme-Birney Round Barn, Restored, Built In 1917
Church of St Cosmas and Damian, Goslar, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany
Brighton Pier Illuminated at Night, Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Arc de Triomf, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Traditional Portuguese pottery, Sagres, Algarve, Portugal
Statues of Socrates and Athena outside Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece
Chozoviotissa monastery, Amorgos, Cyclades Islands, Greece, Europe
Basilica de Nuestra Senora de los Angeles, Cartago, Costa Rica
St Stephens Cathedral dwarfed by glass skyscrapers, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Australasia
River Rhine, and Cathedral (Dom), Cologne (Koln), North Rhine Westphalia, Germany
Changing of the guards ceremony, Gyeongbokgung Palace, Palace of Shining Happiness, Seoul, South Korea
Magic Fountain, Valencia, Comunidad Autonoma de Valencia, Spain
Statue, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Christmas Market, Brussels, Belgium
Two Datoga men participate in a mock stick fight. The Datoga (known to their Msai neighbours as the Mang ati and to the Iraqw as Babaraig) live in northern Tanzania and are primarily pastoralists
Two young Datoga boys. The youngest wears metal bells around his ankles to ensure that he does not wander far from home without his mother or another member of the family hearing him
A young Datoga boy attired in beads. The metal bells worn around his ankles ensure that he does not wander far from home without his mother or another member of the family hearing him
A Hadza boy carrying a bow and arrows.The Hadzabe are a thousand-strong community of hunter-gatherers who have lived in the Lake Eyasi basin for centuries
Hadza youth sings to the accompaniment of his two-stringed musical instrumentSitting on a Greater Kudu skin, a Hadza youth wearing a baboon skin cape sings to the accompaniment of his two-stringed musical instrument.The Hadzabe are a thousand-strong community of
Datoga baby on his mothers backA Datoga baby is carried in a leather carrier on his mothers back The traditional attire of Datoga women includes beautifully tanned and decorated leather dresses
Women divide up a fish catch, Lake RukwaWomen divide up a fish catch on the shores of Lake Rukwa in Southwest Tanzania. Lake Rukwa is a long, narrow lake lying in a basin of inland drainage southeast of Lake Tanganyika; it forms part of
Msai youth with decorated faceBlack clothing and the intricate white patterns on the face of this Msai youth of the Kisongo section signify his recent circumcision
Msai - old and newOld and new. Dressed traditionally and carrying familiar wooden staff, two young men give hints that the lifestyle of younger Msai generations is changing gradually in Tanzania
A Hadza hunter wearing a baboon skin returns to camp with a haunch of impala over his shoulder. He killed the antelope with a metal-tipped arrow that had been dipped in a fast-acting vegetable poison
A Hadza hunter fledges an arrow shaftA Hadza hunter wearing a baboon skin fledges an arrow shaft with guinea fowl feathers using the sinews of an antelope.The Hadzabe are a thousand-strong community of hunter-gatherers who have lived in
A Hadza hunter smokes cannabis from a crude stone pipeA Hadza hunter wearing a genet cat skin cape smokes cannabis from a crude stone pipe sheathed in leather.The Hadzabe are a thousand-strong community of hunter-gatherers who have lived in the Lake
An ox-drawn cart near Arusha
