Sonja Suhadolc
TRAVELING DIARY
P H O T O G R A P H Y
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Ethiopia.
Digital photography.
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At the rasta family garden, Shashamane.
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Grandmothers love, Hamar tribe.
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Daydreaming at the beach, Ziway lake.
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Bull jumping ceremony, Hamar tribe.
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Women of the tribe dance, while the men whip the women as they scream in demand.
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They believe in the strength & beauty behind the pain & scarification.
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Hairdresser in Hamar tribe.
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Chilling out by the lake.
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Fishermans at work.
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In a local bar, drinking tej(honney wine).
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Rasta mom, Shashamane. (In 1948 Haile Selassie donated 2.0 km2 of his private land in Shashamane to allow members of the Rastafari movement from Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean to go to Africa).
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Coffee!
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Positive energy in a local village.
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Birds, eating our injera (local dish).
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Men have their faces painted, before ceremony (initiating a boy into manhood - Hamer tribe, bull jumping) starts.
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Mursi tribe. Men are famous for their stick-fighting ceremony.
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Mursi woman.
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Local food market.
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Shashamane.
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Chilling out in Hamer village.
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Mursi women are known all over the world for wearing clay plates in their lower lips.
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Making teff flour. (later it will be prepared as injera pancakes)
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Mursi woman prepared us local breakfast.
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Rasta grandpa in his house in Shashamane. His house was fool of weed, Haile Selassies pictures, old documents, rastafarian flags. (Said to be first rasta New Yorker, who moved to Shashamane).
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Buna. Best coffee in the world!