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Owning the Gaze

A proud Maasai herder (warrior age-set) paused for a moment to vogue this pose near the crater rim in the Ngorongoro Highlands of northern Tanzania. Elegantly adorned with glass-beaded necklaces, medallion and wrist band; an amber bracelet; and stretched earlobes with glass-beaded sleeves and copper pendants. High resolution Noritsu Koki QSS digital film scan, shot with a compact semi-automatic Pentax point-and-shoot film camera (38~105mm AF), circa 1997. expl#46

 

Another version appears in © National Geographic Yourshot (Editors’ Favourite with Editors’ Note, July 2018). Story and assignment: “Not Just a Face.”

 

 

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Uploaded on June 27, 2015
Taken circa 1997