ENTRY DESCRIPTION
A young girl from the Dassanech tribe in the surroundings of the Omorate village. Dassanech (meaning ‘People from the Delta”) live where the Omo River delta enters Lake Turkana. Despite the lake and delta, this is a very dry region where daytime temperatures hover around 35 degrees centigrade. They are a primarily agropastoral people and rely on their goats and cattle which give them milk and in the dry season, meat.

AUTHOR
Born in 1984, Rafal Ziejewski lives in Szczecin, Poland. Ever since he was young, he has been fascinated by remote countries, cultures and travelling. He started taking photographs in 2008, when he decided to buy his first DSLR camera. Professionally a lawyer, but in his free time – a travel photographer.

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