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french photographer eric valli has spent over twenty years documenting the peoples of the himalayas, including the dolpo, seen here, who live between tibet and nepal in one of the highest inhabitable regions in the world.

notes eric, “you can never just observe. because my work is all about interaction. …i have lived years and years with these people. i have nothing to teach them and they have everything to teach me. ..they work hard, but want for nothing. they are happy and alive.“

eschewing digital cameras, valli continues to shoot with his leicas. “i might take an okay picture, but what i’m looking for is an enthnogrpahic testimony of the human adventure; a complete existence in one picture,” he says.

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Indigo clad Woodabe young women in Abouza, Zinder-Tanout region, Niger circa, 1970.

Image courtesy of Eliot Elisofon and The Smithsonian.

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We live in a world where we so often quote figures of the number of the dead in Iraq and Afghanistan and Congo, until they become just that–figures. Each time I read these news articles, I find myself thinking, “What do they dream about in Congo?” “How do they fall in love in Afghanistan?” “How do they resolve family quarrels in Iraq?” “What do they like to eat?” Of course we must know about the dead and the dying. And of course these figures and facts are essential. But they must, they should coexist with human stories. We should know how people die, but we should also know how they live.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Commonwealth Lecture 2012

On the tremendous importance of human stories and not just “facts.” Adichie is incredible.

(via owning-my-truth)

#quotes #quote #life #humanity

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“Semenesh and Haven are their own individuals with very different personalities, yet I see so many similarities because of their closeness. They are two souls from opposites sides of the world with different birth mothers who were brought together through adoption, and they’re now inseparable. When we grow beside another, our similarities bloom.“

Anna Larson Photography

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I L U M I N A D A V I B E

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Aerenout Overbeeke : N’doto tanzania dream.

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Kabul, Afghanistan

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Western Kenya | via flickr

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Young men walk along the beach at low tide in Dar es Salaam, October 27th 2015. Votes are being counted in what is expected to be Tanzania’s tightest election race ever, with the governing party facing the first major challenge to its dominance in decades. Credit: AFP/ Daniel Hayduk