1st place
gold star award
Alberto del Hoyo Mora
spain 
title
MYSTIC VALLEY WARRIORS
The series "Mystic Valley" tries to show the cultural richness of the Suri warriors. Proud warriors tribes full of tradition.
At dusk, as the sun faded and as the land cooled, the scent of the Omo River and air took on the smell of tannins.
His own curiosity for different ways of living has brought him to unfamiliar tribal territories of Asia, South America and Africa searching for the distinctive beauty and variety of its people.
In 2015 founded “Pics for Pills”. Modest fundraising initiative with the only aim of collecting medicines and medical supplies for the Omo Valley people in Ethiopia. The protagonists of the photographs must be the main beneficiaries.
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entry description
The Omo Valley encompases 69%of Ethiopia's 78 ethnic groups that make up a large outdoor ethnographic museum. An orthodox Christian country surrounded by an ocean of Islam; The only one ever colonized; One of the poorest in the worldThe series "Mystic Valley" tries to show the cultural richness of the Suri warriors. Proud warriors tribes full of tradition.
At dusk, as the sun faded and as the land cooled, the scent of the Omo River and air took on the smell of tannins.
about the photographer
Alberto del Hoyo is a spanish photographer based in the Canary Island. Holds a MBA from Instituto de Empresa Business School and is graduated by CEV Photography.His own curiosity for different ways of living has brought him to unfamiliar tribal territories of Asia, South America and Africa searching for the distinctive beauty and variety of its people.
In 2015 founded “Pics for Pills”. Modest fundraising initiative with the only aim of collecting medicines and medical supplies for the Omo Valley people in Ethiopia. The protagonists of the photographs must be the main beneficiaries.
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