Not just a day trip: Lynn Doran’s photographs from Ethiopia’s Omo ValleyA Little Light on a Dark ContinentLynn Doran’s “Omo” takes us deep into Ethiopiaby Bondo WyszpolskiThree years ago, Lynn Doran journeyed to the remote Omo Valley, situated within the Great Rift Valley of Southwest Ethiopia, and photographed six indigenous peoples. A true sense of adventureOne could say that Lynn Doran has had the travel bug for over 60 years. “But then I saw some photos of the people in the Omo Valley. They began in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, visited a 14th century Christian town and an old walled city that was entirely Muslim, before entering the Omo Valley, which is largely pagan. “There’s something about the Omo Valley,” she says.

Source: Ethiopian News December 01, 2016 09:11 UTC