up to here and no further

• Photographer
  Jennifer Breuel, Germany, Germany

Diversity of tradition is what I discovered in Opuwo. In native
Herero language Opuwo means "up to here and no further".
Located in the north-west of Namibia, the remote settlement
warrants about this last shopping stop. During shopping in the
supermarket everybody was elaborately dressed representing their
tribe or heritage. The Himba, a semi-nomadic tribe, statuesque
with intricately-adorned ochre skin and hairdos created using goat
hair, butter and mud coexist with their counterpart the Herero
tribe dressed in flamboyant victorian outfits. The series captures
the energy of the unexpected and shows how traditional cultures
adopt modern lifestyle.