Tribe Portrait Photography

John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with natural light and his subjects in their day to day attire. The C-t...

"The Gaze" An iconic, fashion-inspired portrait of a young Rendille woman highlighting the bold and beautiful traditions of her remote tribal culture. The print series Desert Song:...

"Trimmed in Grace" A young Rendille woman wears the traditional adornments of her culture with honor and pride in this iconic, award-winning portrait. The print series Desert Son...

I met this young married Samburu in the middle of a busy market in western Kenya. She was with a group of young women browsing the wooden stalls dotted across the dusty red earth in the lowlands of the Matthew’s Range. In Samburu communities young men spend years as warriors – a wandering lifestyle which make it impossible for them to marry. Instead they take girlfriends and give them beads and necklaces to indicate their relationship. Samburu girls adore receiving these presents and adorn themselves in more and more necklaces. The girl in this picture, although now married to an elder, still shows her beads from the time of being promised to a warrior: they are the band of 8 or so thin necklaces...

A portrait of Kakuwsa, a Rendille man from northern Kenya in 2019. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with...

A portrait of Kakuwsa, a Rendille man from northern Kenya in 2019. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with...

A young girl from one of the few Mursi villages in Mago National Park, in the lower Omo valley. The Mursi are often engaged in flood retreat cultivation around two main rivers: the O...

A young girl from one of the few Mursi villages in Mago National Park, in the lower Omo valley. The Mursi are often engaged in flood retreat cultivation around two main rivers: the O...

A portrait of Nawoi, a Turkana woman from northern Kenya in 2019. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with ...

A portrait of Nawoi, a Turkana woman from northern Kenya in 2019. John Kenny’s work is all shot on location in some of the remotest corners of Africa. His images are all taken with ...

Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...

Carol Beckwith, (American, b. 1945), Maasai Portrait Chromogenic print on paper, from Beckwith's book "Maasai" (1980), Hand signed in pencil, dated and titled with name of sitter in margins, 19" x 16" Sheet. Carol Beckwith (1945-) is an American photographer, author, and artist known for her photojournalism documenting the indigenous tribal cultures of Africa, most notably in partnership with the Australian photographer Angela Fisher. Between them, Beckwith and Fisher have published 14 books, and have had their photos appear in National Geographic, Natural History, African Arts, The Observer Magazine, Time, Life, Vogue, Marie Claire and Elle. They continue to exhibit and lecture at galleries and museums worldwide, including The American Museum of Natural History and The Explorers Club in New York City, The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and the Royal Geographical Society in London. They have also collaborated on four films about African traditions. Together they have received numerous accolades, including the United Nations Award for Excellence, the Royal Geographical Society's Cherry Kearton Medal, two Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, The Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Award, and the WINGS WorldQuest Lifetime Achievement Award. Carol Beckwith was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where she went on to attend both the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Goucher College in Maryland. After obtaining her degree in Painting and Photography she won a traveling fellowship from the Boston Museum, which let her travel to other countries for the first time. She spent seven months in Japan, living in a Zen temple and studying calligraphy painting. She continued to travel through Southeast Asia and New Guinea, where she witnessed a "sing-sing", a gathering of 90,000 Highland warriors, in Mount Hagen, and paddled up Chambri Lakes in a canoe, an experience she called "one of the most wonderful, and in a way formative, experiences in my life." Her first trip to Africa was in 1973, when she was invited to spend Christmas with a friend in Kenya. Beckwith bought a 45-day roundtrip ticket and ended up staying eight months. There she encountered the Maasai people who invited her to witness a female circumcision ceremony. Astonished by the ritual, she then determined to spend more time with the Maasai. Beckwith studied photography in college but had initially intended to become a painter. It was during her travels through New Guinea that she realized the advantages of photography, saying that "there was such a vast amount of exciting material that I began to photograph instead, approaching photography with the eye of a painter in terms of light, color, composition. I wanted the images to be multi layered experiences in a way that a painting is. . . [Photography] seemed to be a more suitable medium for the pace of travel." Beckwith's first major collaboration was with Tepilit Ole Saitoti, an anthropologist and former Maasai warrior...

Awesome black and white image of Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner posed in elaborate costumes for a scene in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments This listing is for a limited edition ...

Edition sizes: 36 x 27 inches - Edition of 3 with 2 APs 24 x 18 inches - Edition of 5 with 2 APs 16 x 12 inches - Edition of 7 with 2 APs JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY proudly presents T...

"Arbore Woman Portrait" Photography 40" x 26.5" inch Edition 2/7 by Safaa Kagan Omo Valley, Ethiopia series 2018 ABOUT Safaa is a Los Angeles based photographer with a mission t...

24 x 18 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY proudly presents The Changing Face of Portraiture, the premier solo exhibition of photography by artistic duo E2 ...

Edition of 15 Signed, titled, and numbered. Jimmy Katz, born in New York City in 1957, received his B.A. in political science and studied photography with John McKee at Bowdoin Coll...

"Arbore Man Portrait" Photography 40" x 26.5" inch Edition 2/7 by Safaa Kagan Omo Valley, Ethiopia series 2018 ABOUT Safaa is a Los Angeles based photographer with a mission to ...

"Mursi Woman. Horns" Photography 40" x 30" inch Edition 2/7 by Safaa Kagan Omo Valley, Ethiopia series 2018 ABOUT Safaa is a Los Angeles based photographer with a mission to dis...

"Karo Mother and Son" Photography 40" x 26.5" inch Edition 2/7 by Safaa Kagan Omo Valley, Ethiopia series 2018 ABOUT Safaa is a Los Angeles based photographer with a mission to ...

"Kayan Girl" Photography 40" x 26.5" inch Edition 2/7 by Safaa Kagan From Myanmar series 2018 ABOUT Safaa is a Los Angeles based photographer with a mission to dissolve the surf...

"Samburu Warrior" Portrait Photography 40" x 26.5" in Ed. 2/7 by Safaa Kagan From Kenya series 2018 ABOUT Safaa is a Los Angeles based photographer with a mission to dissolve th...

"Karo Boy" Portrait Photography 60" x 36" inch Edition 1/5 by Safaa Kagan From Ethiopia series 2018 ABOUT Safaa is a Los Angeles based photographer with a mission to dissolve th...

Joe, Gok Goi Minj Village, Jiwaka Papua New Guinea Art is not in the eye of the beholder, it's in the soul of the artist. Observing the intrinsic beauty of others can be seen as a...

Samburu Mount Poi Kenya When I photograph it feels like I am holding my breath. All my faculties converge to capture the fleeting reality. It's at this precise moment that trying ...

Papua New Guinea - Chimbu - Kagai All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 68.6 x 56.1 cm Edition of 9 116.6 x 94.8 cm Edition of 6 161.3 x 131.2 cm Editi...

Papua New Guinea - Chimbu - Kagai All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 68.6 x 56.1 cm Edition of 9 116.6 x 94.8 cm Edition of 6 161.3 x 131.2 cm Editi...

All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 68.6 x 56.1 cm Edition of 9 116.6 x 94.8 cm Edition of 6 161.3 x 131.2 cm Edition of 4 This photograph will be ...

All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 68.6 x 56.1 cm Edition of 9 116.6 x 94.8 cm Edition of 6 161.3 x 131.2 cm Edition of 4 This photograph will be ...

All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 68.6 x 56.1 cm Edition of 9 116.6 x 94.8 cm Edition of 6 161.3 x 131.2 cm Edition of 4 This photograph will be ...

All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 68.6 x 56.1 cm Edition of 9 116.6 x 94.8 cm Edition of 6 161.3 x 131.2 cm Edition of 4 This photograph will be ...

Indonesia, West Papua, Wamena Area, Dani All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 68.6 x 56.1 cm Edition of 9 116.6 x 94.8 cm Edition of 6 161.3 x 131.2 c...

Woman At A Horse Festival, Tagong, Tibet, 1999 c print 24 x 20 inches edition of 30 signed and numbered on label on verso Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in co...

Portrait of a young man in Niger Edition of 15

Photograph of a child wearing a garland of flowers. Edition of 30

Woman At A Horse Festival, Tagong, Tibet, 1999 c print 24 x 20 inches edition of 30 signed and numbered on label on verso Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in co...

„Inspired by the fascinating peoples of southern Ethiopia I decided to travel deep into this beautiful country and experience the rural tribes in the flesh. I have always been fascinated by 18th and 19th century ethnographic sketches and brilliant black and white anthropological photography in far away countries. As a curious individual I want to submerge myself in different cultures, sights and...

„Inspired by the fascinating peoples of southern Ethiopia I decided to travel deep into this beautiful country and experience the rural tribes in the flesh. I have always been fascinated by 18th and 19th century ethnographic sketches and brilliant black and white anthropological photography in far away countries. As a curious individual I want to submerge myself in different cultures, sights and...