Few things in life are as easy or creative as photographing the Huaorani - apart from the fact they’re simply amazing and wonderful to photograph, they inhabit one of those truly blessed places in the world where, despite it’s challenges, photography can take a hundred different turns and expressions.
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A new approach to sustainable cultural tourism
There have been a number of articles and arguments lately on people attempting to visit and photograph remote, previously unreachable, tribes, be that in the Amazon or the Andaman Islands or any of the other places such tribes still live. The arguments against it are many but they essentially filter down to: “live them alone as the modern world will only bring about the destruction of their innocence and their way of life”.
Read MoreWhy the people of Nagaland captured my heart...
For most tourists and visitors Nagaland, that narrow strip or land at the north east of India, sandwiched between Myanmar and China, is about the Konyak head-hunters and little else. A simple Google search should convince you. Why? The Konyak are different, exotic, remnants of a time the world left behind. And, of course, they make for great images. I travelled to Nagaland to see beyond that, meet the people as they are today and see how the modern world has changed them - if at all. What I discovered were the warmest, kindest, funniest and most hospitable people in the world!
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