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I Spent 20 Days In Tanzania Where I Discovered A Whole New World Of Tribes
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I’m Vlad Cioplea, a photographer from Romania. This autumn I went to Tanzania, Africa, to photograph Maasai, Bushman and Tatoga tribes because I’ve always liked to discover people from different cultures and passions. Because of that, a year ago, I started my first project with my friends and their passions, “100 Friends”.

I went to Tanzania on 12 October, on Columbus Day, and I spent 20 days there. I slept in savanna surrounded by wild animals. I spent time with people from Maasai tribe where I found out that young boys are circumcised at the age of 14 and then they are sent away from the village. They have to live on their own and eat meat from what they hunt.

From Bushman people I learned hunting techniques. Despite the fact that they insisted, I couldn’t eat monkey meat. And a young girl from Tatoga tribe thought that people from Europe eat each other.

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Vlad Cioplea

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I’m 37 years old and I’m from Bucharest, Romania. I graduated the Photographers and Cinematographers University from Bucharest. My passion for photography started when I was a child. My parents worked in cinematography and I inherited ”the virus”. I also worked in the film industry as a camera technician for almost ten years and photography was my love at first sight.

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Vlad Cioplea

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I’m 37 years old and I’m from Bucharest, Romania. I graduated the Photographers and Cinematographers University from Bucharest. My passion for photography started when I was a child. My parents worked in cinematography and I inherited ”the virus”. I also worked in the film industry as a camera technician for almost ten years and photography was my love at first sight.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nat Geo or Times would eat this up. Great work! You really captured the spirit of this tribe.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beautiful work!!!!! Posed and yet still extremely candid in spirit. Sadly, probably way too beautiful for National Geographic who seems to insist that in order to be good photos have to be formulaic. These are anything but that. Please keep making images and sharing them here.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you Winston! I'm happy that you like my work and I'll try to do my best next time! :)

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a photographer Myself I really enjoyed this set. I noticed that everyone has personal decoration in the form of jewelry. Tanzania is noted for their gem mining near the mountain of the gods

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They have tanzanite discovered in the Mererani Hills of Manyara Region in Northern Tanzania in 1967, near Arusha and Kilimanjaro. Thank you Kenneth! I appreciate that. :)

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The keys around the women's necks, what were those for?

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ear piercing and the stretching of earlobes are also part of Maasai beauty, and both men and women wear metal hoops on their stretched earlobes. Also, when they do their traditional welcome dance metal keeps the rhythm.

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Nat Geo or Times would eat this up. Great work! You really captured the spirit of this tribe.

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Beautiful work!!!!! Posed and yet still extremely candid in spirit. Sadly, probably way too beautiful for National Geographic who seems to insist that in order to be good photos have to be formulaic. These are anything but that. Please keep making images and sharing them here.

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Thank you Winston! I'm happy that you like my work and I'll try to do my best next time! :)

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a photographer Myself I really enjoyed this set. I noticed that everyone has personal decoration in the form of jewelry. Tanzania is noted for their gem mining near the mountain of the gods

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They have tanzanite discovered in the Mererani Hills of Manyara Region in Northern Tanzania in 1967, near Arusha and Kilimanjaro. Thank you Kenneth! I appreciate that. :)

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The keys around the women's necks, what were those for?

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Ear piercing and the stretching of earlobes are also part of Maasai beauty, and both men and women wear metal hoops on their stretched earlobes. Also, when they do their traditional welcome dance metal keeps the rhythm.

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