Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity

Over the last century, tribes are being driven from their lands and traditions, and forced to embrace a majoritarian view of life. They are now in varying stages of reconciliation with ‘us’, the outsiders, with our notions of modernity and progress. However, with climate change and global warming at our doorstep, there’s a growing awareness of learning from indigenous tribal wisdom in protecting our environment, and changing the way we think about life on this planet
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
Published: Mar 28, 2019
Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity

Image by : Jason Lee / Reuters

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  • Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity
  • Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity
  • Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity
  • Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity
  • Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity
  • Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity
  • Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity
  • Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity
  • Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity
  • Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity
  • Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity
  • Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity
  • Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity
  • Stunning photos of how tribes around the world are approaching modernity
Tibet
In 2017, Aj Namo became the first Tibetan fashion designer to show at China Fashion Week in Beijing. But when the organisers offered her China’s well-known models, she declined. Instead, she selected young Tibetans from her hometown of Kangba, a small grassland township in western Sichuan, near Tibet. Seeing herself as an ambassador for Tibetan culture in Beijing, Namo wants to change pervasive Chinese perceptions of Tibetans and their culture as “backward”, a result of state propaganda.