Cultures around the world still honor ancient traditional practices of body modification, or the intentional and often irreversible alteration of the skin. For many practitioners, body modifications ...
Joana Choumali's series "Hââbré, The Last Generation" traces the final remnants of a dying tradition. The Kô language word means "writing," but also stands for the practice of scarification that's ...
Having an evening walk with my nine year old niece last week, a look of shock appeared on her face seeing a middle-aged man probably a Masai with face full of scars. “Uncle, what happened to that man?
Fascinating portrait images show the striking beauty of Ethiopia's Suri tribespeople whose bodies are cut with thorns and razors to create distinctive scar markings. An elderly woman is seen sporting ...
Used as a form of initiation into adulthood and a sign of beauty or membership of a specific clan, scarification is a way for tribes to wear their identities on their faces. The ceremony is a process ...
“WRITING” on the skin using stones, glass or knives – scarification – is a traditional, permanent body decoration that is “like wearing your identity card on your face”. In Papua New Guinea, for ...
Girls as young as 12 are being sliced with razor blades as part of a traditional scarification ceremony in Ethiopia. The youngster remained silent during the 10 minute ordeal, which saw her mother use ...
The Mursi tribe, isolated in Omo Valley in Southern Ethiopia near the border of Sudan are well-known for their trademark lip stretching beautification. Know indigenously as dhebi a tugoin, there are ...
A TRIBE in Papua New Guinea carries out one of the world’s most extreme initiation ceremonies on boys as young as 11 which sees their skin sliced open with razor blades so their scars will resemble ...
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