Vanishing Africa

With words and images of extraordinary power and immediacy, photographer Gianni Giansanti takes the reader on a journey of discovery in a region of Africa that has remained untouched over the centuries, and illustrates the life and traditions of the people who live there. Remote Southern Ethiopia is an unspoiled region.

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This book represents months of work of planning and in the field, but above all it is a tribute to the eternal beauty of Africa; the photographs and text 'steal' from the peoples of the Omo a fragment of their mystery and truth. But with delicacy and respect. By examining a small region in the heart of the continent, the books attempts to trace the roots of remotest Africa; the cradle of man, where ancestral bonds with nature still exist. It is a place where the link with the dark side of existence is not hidden, as happens in the West, but exhibited. By means of his camera and his pen, in this book the author has encapsulated long years of study of the most interesting peoples and ethnic groups in Africa. Centered around a series of extraordinary photographs, the book is a sort of reportage from the edge of the world, in search of vanishing Africa.