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58 photographs

Bernhard Schwarz, bare-shouldered against black, an octopus draped over his head, its arms falling across the left half of his face

A child with the body painted blue and rudraksha bead necklaces, arms crossed

A sadhu with a yellow-painted face, red dots around the eyes and a grey beard

A person with a face painted red, yellow and black beneath a feather headdress

Black and white: a young man with braided hair and arm rings, a staff over his shoulder

A child with a blue-painted face and flower ornaments looking out from a turquoise doorframe

A child with an orange-painted face holding a green cloth over their head

A face painted orange and white with a pattern of dots, a stalk in the mouth

A person with white face paint in front of a lettered wooden wall

Two young men with red feather headdresses and faces painted yellow and red

Black and white: a woman with a large lip plate looking into the camera

A sadhu in a red turban with a long white beard in front of a red roller shutter

A man with a face patterned yellow and black and a white beard

A person wearing a mask made of clay, the body dusted pale

Black and white: two women in bowler hats talking at a market

A man with mother-of-pearl ornaments on his chest and feathers in his hair

A laughing woman with ochre braids, a heavy neck ring and beaded necklaces

A boy leaning against a wooden post, his face half hidden

A person with a grey-painted face among palm leaves and red blossoms

A boy in a crocheted cap resting his face in his hand, wearing a spotted shirt

An elderly person with a colourful beaded headband and a wooden lip plug, a pipe in hand

A child with a golden crown and veil looking out from a turquoise doorframe

A face painted white with violet markings around the eyes, beneath a headdress of white roses

Black and white: an engine driver looking out from the cab of a steam locomotive

Dancers with faces painted as skulls, one of them sharp in the foreground

Three children with feather headdresses, faces painted white, blue and red

Black and white: a child wrapped in a patterned cloth, a serious gaze

A child with white dots on the face and grasses in the hair, circles painted on the torso

A boy with his face painted orange and black, a tuft of grass on his head

Black and white: a woman with shell ornaments carrying her child in a sling, a tree trunk behind her

Portrait of a young person wearing a beaded necklace, green light on the cheek

A young man with a beaded headband holding a blue bottle in warm evening light

A girl in a floral dress sitting on a step in front of a mud wall

Black and white: a woman with a lip plate and ear ornaments looking into the camera

A woman with ochre braids and a heavy neck ring laughing, a blue wall behind her

Black and white: a woman with a short braided cut and beaded necklaces, a stalk in her mouth

Two children playing in front of a fence of branches, a thatched hut behind

Portrait of a child wearing white and coloured beaded necklaces

Black and white: two young people standing close together, looking into the camera

Black and white: a person with white face paint and many beaded necklaces before a straw wall

A woman with ochre braids, neck rings and beaded jewellery in front of a blue wall

A boy hanging from a flowering branch, laughing

Market scene: a woman in goatskin sitting among clay pots on the ground

Two fishermen in a boat, silhouetted against the sunset over the lake

A woman with an ochre cap of hair and many layers of beaded jewellery

Three children close together in half-light, the youngest in the middle

A woman with white face paint, a cowrie-shell band and red beaded jewellery

A group of women backlit by the evening sun among huts

Black and white: nine men with bodies painted white posing on a riverbank

A woman with a horned headdress walking across the dusty ground of a village

Black and white: a woman kneading dough on a wooden board inside a hut

Black and white: a small child standing alone on a ploughed field

Close portrait: the right half of a face in grazing light, a tree trunk in front

Black and white: two hands interlocked in front of a dark body

Portrait of a young woman with wooden ear ornaments against a dark background

A young person with one half of the face painted orange, wearing green beaded necklaces

A face painted white with violet markings around the eyes, beneath a headdress of white roses

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