But inevitably the modern world has edged in. The Ethiopian government is creating a cascade of five dams on the upper Omo, a mighty river that winds for 500 miles through the central highlands ...

A trek through Ethiopia's Omo Valley, ... in the 1930s but even now Turner's is the only company touring the Omo River itself. ... explained that 42 boys were about to join the ranks of the Karo ...

Peril in the Lower Omo Valley. After apprenticing with the legendary Richard Avedon, Maynard Switzer set up shop as a commercial photographer. “I was shooting fashion ... Valley, members of the Hamer ...

A Karo boy above the Omo River. ABOUT LESSONS FROM THE FIELD: ... the ancient heartbeat of the valley that has dictated the economic and social values of the almost 200,000 tribal members.

Two less expensive, Addis-based alternatives: The sustainable budget travel company EthioGuzo Tour and Travel, runs Omo trips with local staff. Clients, many of whom are professional photographers ...

Food insecurity, famine and malnutrition have blighted the agropastoralist communities of the Lower Omo River Valley in southwestern Ethiopia. A government source blames a long-term drought for ...

When I visited the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia almost two decades ago, there were few dirt roads, and tribes lived in mud huts and were mostly naked except for spectacular body paint.

Glen Ellen photographer Jane Baldwin has spent a decade traveling through the Omo River Valley in Ethiopia, documenting the lives of tribal women, as shown her current Sonoma Valley Museum of Art ...