Suri Portraits

From the series Suri Portraits

Suri is the name of a semi-nomadic people who live in a mountainous region of Ethiopia next to the Sudan border, and across the border in Sudan. Their homeland is remote, located in desolate mountains, and traditional rivalries with their tribal neighbors have become quite bloody as automatic firearms have become available from the parties in the Sudanese Civil War. Their children are sometimes decorated with white clay paint and other colored pigments, which may be dotted on the face or body,the body art is asthetic expression and olso attracting the opposite sex.

Pavel Wolberg, photographer