Behind the lens
Behind the lens of Ana Robles
I consider myself a traveling photographer in search of cultures that still preserve their traditions and have been little influenced by our western ways. I have learned a lot from them, I like to show their customs, recount their joys and sorrows. In all cases they are similar, only in different environments or realities. In that search, I have also experienced injustice or the pain of impotence, but in all circumstances, I have tried to find beauty.
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Lars Krutak | Anthropology and tattoos
The tribal tradition of tattoos in the world is fascinating. From the Native Americans to certain areas of Africa, passing through the animist regions in Asia. If there is someone who is an expert in this field, it is Lars Krutak, the American anthropologist who gave us this interview.
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The Dupa tribe, the last highlanders of Cameroon
The Dupa tribe inhabits the remote Vokre Mountains in northern Cameroon. These fertile lands allow them to live from subsistence agriculture that they combine with some livestock, hunting and gathering. The Dupa continue to make cloth from native cotton. Some men still wear the penile case and some women cover their private parts with acacia leaves.
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The Nubian, the oldest black culture in Africa
The Nubian are an ancient people from the north-central region of Sudan and southern Egypt. They are often confused with another people of Sudan, the Nubas, who live in an area far removed from Nubia, in the mountains of Kordofan (border with South Sudan).
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