In the Omo Valley, in the southern Ethiopia, we encounter a fascinating mix of nomadic tribes.
In this pictures I?m capture different tribe of omo valley,The Galeb,hamer,Mursi and Konso.
The Galeb(first pictures)This pictures is a tipical village near omo river.
The Hamer(3?photo) men and women use elaborate hair dressing, they wear a clay ?cap? that is painted and decorated with feathers and other ornaments.
The Hamer famous for decoretion.The woman use beads and armband of iron for decoretion.
The ?ensente? (string of iron) use only the woman married.
The second pictures, one cildren play in Turmi. Turmi was the location for global conference of pastoralists. This was the largest meeting of its type, with representatives from 23 countries on four continents. Conferees discussed common problems and possible strategies for continuing their way of life in an evolving world.
The Mursi(4 photo) use pulverized white chalk-like minerals to create elaborate face and body decorations for cerimonial dances.
The Konso(last pictures) is famous for the ability of abitant to bulding a village.
In this photo children play in center of place.The center is sign of pilaster of stone.
Alessandro Penso was born in Velletri in 1978. He studied Clinical psychology at "La Sapienza" University in Rome.
in 2007 he obtained a scholarship in photojournalism at the "Scuola Romana di Fotografia".
During his studies, he produced a photo reportage on the subject "Valle dell'Omo" in Ethiopia for which he obtains the "PDN PhotoStudent".
In the last few years he has begging documenting works on the body and sexuality of the modern society and immigration these works are still in progress.
Thanks to a part of this work, he obtains several awards such as: The second award for the PX3 photoreportage category "the other" and one honor mention; 8 honor mention at the IPA, 1 for the "Lucca Digital Photo" and the nomination as "selected author" at the "Fotoleggendo 2008".
In 2009 he was finalist at the Photoespana and he was selected for the project "In Between" (the goal was to photograph Rome in 62 hours outside the ancient walls) by the "Rome photography Fotofestival" to realize a team project on Rome wich has been published as a book and has produced an exhibition.
Moreover, for the Festival of Rome he joined a team expo "12x10".
In 2009 thanks to "Drag Kings" project won "PDN Photo Annual 2010". In 2011 won Project Launch, Santa FE,
with "Migrant Workers Journey" which was exposed at New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe.In the same year entered in the Shortlisted of the prize "Accademia Apulia Photography Award 2011".His works have been exhibited and published in different countries like England, North America, South Africa, EuropeHe lives and works in Rome.
