On the border with South Sudan near the Omo Valley, some 7,000 Surma people ... plus a chef and other support staff as we camped with the Surma tribe. I brought along my Canon 6D DSLR camera ...

English photographer Matilda Temperley has visited the remote Omo valley in Ethiopia, documenting the colourful traditions of the Surma people who live in the Rift Valley The tribes pictured in ...

Behind the lens: This photograph was taken in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia in November 2015, where the Surma tribe members decorate themselves in the most creative ways. It took three days of solid ...

The Surma and Mursi people use the colors of ... Similarly to other tribes of the Omo Valley, men must pass a test before they are able to marry. In this specific ritual, they must decorate ...

Yet far from the catwalks of New York, London or Paris, these looks are the sole creation of the Surma and Mursi tribes of East Africa's Omo Valley. Inspired by the wild trees, exotic flowers and ...

A prime example of where to find typical examples of such a people is in the Southern Ethiopian regions near Lake Turkana and the Lower Omo Valley ... both home to the Surma tribe.

But by taking pictures of the tribes, I am actually hastening that change. Foreigners began trickling into the Omo River Valley just prior to the 1936–1941 Italian occupation, after historian ...

With every generation, the chance to see some of the world’s last tribal people living authentically dwindles. When I visited the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia almost two decades ago ...