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Photography SPOTTED. German photographer, Hans Silvester documents the extraordinary body painting of the Surma and Mursi peoples of the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan. Silvester describes his immersion into the lives and tradition of these tribes as an effort to “save…as much as possible of this truly living art, which is mobile, changing, subject to infinite variation, and whose constituent elements…form a link between man and nature.” Fascinating, intimate and immensely compelling, this body of work is truly a treasure on both historical and artistic fronts. Extraordinary…