Papallona

french photographer eric valli has spent over twenty years documenting the peoples of the himalayas, including the dolpo, seen here, who live between tibet and nepal in one of the highest inhabitable regions in the world.

notes eric, “you can never just observe. because my work is all about interaction. …i have lived years and years with these people. i have nothing to teach them and they have everything to teach me. ..they work hard, but want for nothing. they are happy and alive.“

Indigo clad Woodabe young women in Abouza, Zinder-Tanout region, Niger circa, 1970.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Commonwealth Lecture 2012

On the tremendous importance of human stories and not just “facts.” Adichie is incredible.

“Semenesh and Haven are their own individuals with very different personalities, yet I see so many similarities because of their closeness. They are two souls from opposites sides of the world with different birth mothers who were brought together through adoption, and they’re now inseparable. When we grow beside another, our similarities bloom.“ 

The Yaka, Kinshasa, DRC, 2002.

Indian Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Nakhoda Mosque in Kolkata on August 9, 2013.