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Photo by @randyolson | story as told to @neilshea13 — This is my favorite image from our work along the Omo River. It’s a very private photograph, because this guy isn’t facing us, and he’s looking at something beyond the frame. It’s so simple, and yet we don’t know what’s going on. That’s part of what I love—a kind of a secret is hidden here, a moment no one else knows. I made this photo outside a village called Duss, home of the Kara tribe. In the background is the river, flowing south toward Lake Turkana. The sun is setting. Dust rises from this guy’s goats as they walk down to drink. He was a tribal elder, and he and everyone else in Duss were painting themselves brightly that evening because there was a full moon and they were going to have a moon dance. People were so jazzed, so joyful, and here I am, the only white guy around, and they’re not doing it for me, they’re not doing it for the camera. There are always overtones with stories in Africa—is this real? Is this tainted by my presence? Is it changed because tourists have run through here? By this point we had spent a long time living with the Kara. They knew us. Knew us so well they almost didn’t see us anymore. So the dance wasn’t a performance for strangers. It was life. It was this last beautiful breath before their world was crushed between the big dam upriver and the sugar plantations lower down. In our work you can never really belong, but in that moment I felt like I did. Like I was part of that place. It happens so rarely. For me the photograph is actually a failure. It doesn’t come close to describing the experience.

This image is an out-take from our recent Instagram series on Ethiopia’s Omo River and Kenya’s Lake Turkana, where we’ve worked over the last six years documenting culture, change, and conflict. You can see the whole project archived at #NGwatershedstories, and find our features about this region in @ナショナルジオグラフィック magazine. For more of our stories, please check in @randyolson and @neilshea13.

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