NATURAL FASHION | Photography By Hans Silvester

NATURAL FASHION | Photography By Hans Silvester
The Surma and Mursi tribes of Omo Valley in Southern Ethiopia are body painters. They paint their bodies with natural pigments made from the earth. They paint themselves and each other in a tradition that has remained unchanged for millenia. They use their bodies as canvases, painting their skin with pigments made from powdered volcanic rock and adorning themselves with materials obtained from flowers, leaves, grasses, shells and animal horns.