A young woman from the Mursi tribe sends out a piercing look while standing next to a group of playful youngsters.
An elderly pilgrim approaches a priest at the entry steps to the rock carved St.George's church.
She approaches him to ask for him to visit and bless her home, all this while he is tying his shoelaces at the end of a day of prayer.
In the Danakil Depression, one of the hottest and lowest altitude regions of Earth, the unbearable heat on the surface comes both from the scalding desert Sun and the fiery Erta Ale volcano. One in a handful volcanoes in the world where the center spectacle is lava lake, a mesmerizing pool of hot melting rock that makes one oblivious to the extreme danger of standing a couple of meters away from its edge. © Adriano Neves - @acseven - adrianon.com - All Rights Reserved
Young men from the Karo tribe, Ethiopia, finger painted by one other young tribe member.
A remarkable cultural heritage of the Afar Region of Ethiopia (African continent), a region with one of the harshest environments on Earth, and a true testament to human resilience: the salt miner caravan of the Danakil Depression desert is as impressive as it is humbling.
These miners and camel herders make daily travels to the middle of the salt flats and collect blocks of it under extreme conditions, to be sold for amounts so small that are almost incomprehensible to most of us.
But the most impressive of this entire ordeal is knowing that it will carry on tomorrow and the day after, day after day. Much like Sisyphus' Ordeal.
A young Mursi woman sends out a sharp glance while the Sun nears the horizon at the of the day in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia.
Blurred out of focus the shoulder hints some irregular bumps, in fact skin scar adornments. These lead to an inset ear lobe ring and finally to more appeasing body paint patterns and neck collar beads.
Indigenous tribes are found throughout the Omo river Valley, carrying out their ways of life as if time stood still. This portrait depicts a youngster from the Karo tribe, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Continent of Africa, adorned with body paintings and beaded accessories traditional of this tribe.
As the day approaches its end, a young tribesman carries a goat into the center of the Mursi tribe village, far away from any trace of modern civilisation.
The Danakil Depression desert, a vast, harsh and merciless geographical feature of our planet, best known to be the hottest place on Earth, considering year-round average temperatures.
The region is immense, spanning roughly the size of Portugal, with many natural wonders along with centuries old human presence, with their culture and traditions.
Depicted in the photograph, workers begin their daily journey walking great distances into the almost infinite Danakil salt pan, where salt miners work for an average of roughly 5 euros per day, 6 days a week.
A handful of young men follow the tail of the camel caravan, heading into the middle of the Danakil Depression Desert. These men will work for the day mining and carving blocks of salt off the desert's salt banks, under extreme environmental conditions.
A pilgrim enters one of the many carved rock tunnels of Lalibela, located in northern Ethiopia.
Entire churches were cut through the rock bed of this mountain town, connected by a complex network of open and underground pathways.
A unique marvel of Human Heritage that stood the test of time, serving to this day as a beacon for the faith of the many pilgrims visiting.
The Afar are a nomadic ethnic group that dominate the regions with the same name: the Afar Region of Ethiopia.
Depending mostly of livestock and cattle, this hard enduring people live in what is probably one of the most extreme environments in the world, the Danakil Depression desert.
Portrait of an elder woman, Omo Valley, Ethiopia.
Nature has its ways of making us feel little, but nothing can quite compare to the sheer and brute forces of volcanoes.
In the middle of the Afar Region (Ethiopia), Erta Ale reveals itself as a pulsating pathway to the depths beneath our feet, a molten lava portal to the inner core.
There is little that makes you feel so insignificant when compared to the forces that drive this planet we call Home as standing right next to a volcano's lava lake like the one here depicted: Erta Ale, in the middle of the Danakil Depression desert, Afar region of Ethiopia.
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Salt and sulfur formations as seen in the Dallol volcano, in the Danakil Depression desert of Ethiopia. A stunning widespread natural feature though located in a very tough environment, with acidic waters spurting out of geysers, temperatures soaring fire hot, and the air filled with sulphuric gas.
A stunning view of the Milky Way over Nechisar National Park and Lakes Abaya and Chamo, all resting below Arba Minch's plateau (Ethiopia). Down there, the night is Dark and full of Life, as Nature makes sure to be heard across the forest. Up here, that fence gave us a false sense of safety: the two of us out photographing at that hour were startled by a curious adult porcupine that approached unnanounced, less than an handful of meters away, a stingy situation.
