The world is forgotten in the Omo Valley

The tribes living in Omo Valley are facing changes of the times.

The photographer was present in Ethiopia's Omo Valley , which is almost forgotten. The last remaining tribes here is the living testimony and the one who keeps the precious cultural drawings of mankind.

The changes of modern life are beginning to invade here.A huge hydroelectric dam is building on Omo's rivers to power large commercial plantations.The indigenous inhabitants were forced to leave their land, the ancestral land of thousands of years.

Their living environment is inherently fragile, now everything stands in front of the brink of danger.Loss of land, loss of livelihoods, and the risk of annual flooding of agricultural areas.

Tourism growth has also affected their behavioral lifestyles, impacting significantly on lifestyle and worldview.If they used to rely only on nature, they now start making money for each photo shoot.It is very rare to have an opportunity to understand the original life of this community.

If the traditional costumes, jewelry or garlands are the familiar thing, now, they start putting those things on people to serve tourists.Children are painted on the body, but not according to the traditions of the past but only for tourists to take pictures.

The ceremonies are also held more frequently than before, they become popular work of men.Besides, there are also traditional maturity ceremonies, marking an old boy to be the head of the family, owning livestock.

They are also more curious about the modern items that the outside world brings.Not sure if this will affect the life here, but the changes are inevitable.

There are things that no one can understand without firsthand witnessing.Cultural values ​​will change by many factors, no one will force them to remain the same, but it is the people in the community who will decide how to change this.