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Bernhard Schwarzphotographyen · de

Series · 01

FACES

61 photographs

Portraits of foreign cultures look deep into the soul of the world, transcend borders, and tell life stories in just a single, intense moment.

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

MONGOLIA

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

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

Rajasthan

HAT BOI OPERA HCM

Waorani - Yasuní-Nationalpark

SRI LANKA

Siam Reap

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

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

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

Guatemala

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

BOLIVIA

Siam Reap

Maroc

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

Ethiopia

MONGOLIA (236)

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

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

Waorani - Yasuní-Nationalpark

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

TRITON BAY

Rajasthan

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

HIMBA Woman Spitzkoppe Namibia 2026

Rajasthan

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

NAMIBIA

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

Rajasthan

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

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

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

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

Guatemala

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

NAMIBIA

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

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

Portrait of a child wearing white and coloured beaded necklaces

Rajasthan

NAMIBIA

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

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

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

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

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

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