Constructed photograpy by Felipe Bedoya, the project is inspired by African cultures - OMO Valley / Hans Silvester and well painted with acrylic watercolor on paper. The Omo Valley is situated within Africa’s famous and geologically-speaking rapidly expanding Great Rift Valley (which will eventually split the continent into two landmasses).

The Valley have a long history of face and body painting, decorative scarring and piercing. Both men and woman pierce their ears for discs. Woman used to commonly pierce and stretch their lower lip for a plate, but that tradition is fast fading. 

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