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Beautiful and surreal photographs of the L’Omo people of Ethiopia, sometimes called the ‘painted people,’ photographed by Hans Silvester. They are living art. Silvester describes his mission; ‘what’s most important for me is saving, in some way, as much as possible of this truly living art, which is mobile, changing, subject to infinite variation, and whose constituent elements are simple and form a link between man and nature. It seems to me that our modern painting found the purpose of these elements, this simplicity, and used it as its foundation.’

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