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Hamar Hands

© National Geographic Yourshot (Editors' Favourite, August 2018). Story and assignment: “Rethinking Portraiture.”

 

An elderly Hamar woman with cane at the weekly market in Turmi, a small multi-ethnic frontier town in the remote Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region of Ethiopia, East Africa. Adorned with seeded necklaces, brass bracelets, and goatskin clothing.

 

The Hamar are semi-nomadic herders and farmers who live in small settlements or hamlets scattered across the hills, plains, wooded riverines, and dry thorny bush terrain in Ethiopia's lower Omo Valley, near the border with northern Kenya and South Sudan. expl#133

 

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Uploaded on April 26, 2024
Taken in February 2009