Silver 2020 / People / Portrait (Non-Pro)

Suri Tribe

  • Photographer
    Sarah Wouters
  • Prizes
    Silver in People/Portrait, Bronze in People/Culture

Suri tribe of Ethiopia are living in southwestern Ethiopia, near the border of South Sudan, and successfully surviving through a combination of livetsock hearding (cattle, goats and sheep), some hunting and gathering, rain-fed cultivation of a variety of field crops like millet, corn, and sorghum, and the garden cultivation of legumes, spice plants, peas and beans. The Suri women pride themselves on their scars and lip plate and some paint themselves with mineral colour on their body and face.

59 years old I am native thai, I am a travel photographer, I lived in the Netherlands more than 25 years and immigrate back to Thailand 6 years ago then I start practice photograph.