Welcome to The Surma Tribe | Ethiopia

• Prize
  Bronze in People/Culture
• Photographer
  Uwe Manfred Schroeder
• Technical Info
  Nikon Z6 I, 40 Mm F1,4 Sigma, > 1/1000, F 5,0, Iso 200
• Photo Date
  05.07.2022

Welcome to the land of the Surma Tribe, that's how I was greeted in the summer of 2022, on my way to the villages of the Surma tribe in the Omo Valley.

He was born in East Berlin in 1973. The view from his family’s Apartment on the 8th floor at the Ostbahnhof: on the left towards Kreuzberg to the Berlin Wall; on the right to Friedrichshain Berg, heaped up from rubble of World War II. As a young adult, Schroder trained in marketing and worked for over 20-years at Der Welt, a large daily newspaper. Today, he’s a manager in the finance department at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences, a private university, where one can earn a Bachelor or Master’s degree in photography.