Omo Tribes in Ethiopia Body Painting

Omo Tribes Ethiopia Body Painting Gallery

In the confines of Ethiopia, centuries away from modernity, Hans Sylvester photographed during six years the tribes where men, women, children, old people, are geniuses of an ancient art. At their feet, the Omo river, astride a triangle on Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya, the vast Rift Valley which slowly separates from Africa, a volcanic region which provides a vast range of pigments, red ochre, white kaolin, copper green, yellow or light gray ash.

The Omo Tribes are genius of painting, and their bodies of two metres high is a huge canvas. The strength of their art lies in three words: fingers, speed and freedom.